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...said there are no plans to convert theupperclass houses to the card key system mosthouses are built around provides an extra measureof security. "We're working hard to come up withnew ideas, but we don't want to complicatematters," said Jewett...
While the Crimson had kept up constant pressure in the Huskies' end, but had failed to convert on a number of opportunites, including several corner and indirect kicks...
...cycle's first volume was The Ice-Shirt, a brooding narration of the settling of Greenland and Vinland. Fathers and Crows has six glossaries, endless footnotes, maps and epigraphs, a 47-page biography of St. Ignatius Loyola and nearly 1,000 pages. It relates Jesuit efforts to convert Huron and Iroquois Indians in the early 17th century, but the author prepares his narration so thoroughly that major characters are not introduced before the book's tardy midpoint...
...They changed allegiance again in 1980, helping to give Ronald Reagan and Bush large majorities. This year there is some wavering among the faithful. One reason is mild disappointment with Bush. Another is Bill Clinton's and Al Gore's status as churchgoing Southern Baptists. If Clinton and Gore convert their religious ties into enough votes, the Democrats can be politically born again in the South and a few pivotal states elsewhere...
Heredity has a lot to do with the muscles' makeup, but training can play a part as well. "You can't convert slow-twitch into fast-twitch fibers," says Fleck, but you can speed them up a bit. Middle-distance runners who want to improve their final kick can go through drills of bounding, jumping and sprinting to condition their muscle fibers to contract more quickly...