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...Cornell tends to bring a pretty sizeable (and obnoxious) crowd with them, so this is an especially important requirement to fulfill. FOOTBALL at YALE (Sat. 11/17, 12:30 p.m.)This is the hardest, but most rewarding requirement of the Sports Core. It’s time to toughen up and shake off the hangover from the Cornell hockey game and get on a bus to New Haven. The state of Harvard football has declined since the Crimson won its only Rose Bowl in 1920, but the aura surrounding The Game has not. It’s the longest-running rivalry...
...played in the backyard pretty much every single day, in the summer and stuff,” Sara says. “John Henry would sometimes play defense on me to kind of toughen...
...Responding to the decision, some 3,000 Polish men and women waving national white-and-red flags and chanting prayers gathered on Wednesday around the 19th century St. Aleksander Church, a few hundred yards from the Polish Sejm, or parliament, in downtown Warsaw to demand that the government toughen its abortion laws. "A nation that kills its children won't survive!" read one banner, quoting the late Polish pontiff John Paul II. "Poland cannot kill its babies!" declared another. "Let the unborn see our Homeland." Not far away, in Constitution Square, a Stalinist cluster of 1950s social realism architecture, about...
...revealed that several properties she owns around Detroit had code violations. Reeves says she has resolved the problems. "Sometimes people like you; sometimes they are ready to throw things at you," she says. "I was used to people cheering for me everywhere I go. My son Eric said, 'Mom, toughen up. It comes with the territory. Stop whining.' So I took his advice." She has not decided yet whether she will run again when her term is up in 2010. But if she doesn't, she already has something to fall back on. Since the election--and the publicity that...
...deficit for fiscal 2005 that was the largest in the nation. (To be fair, Blagojevich, 49, has improved on the $5 billion deficit that Ryan bequeathed to him.) And though the PR-savvy incumbent has bragged about being an "education governor" in announcing initiatives to expand preschool opportunities and toughen academic requirements for high school graduates, Illinois continues to rank near the bottom in state education spending...