Word: gaps
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After I read the "the girl gap," I saw a television show about American mothers who throw expensive parties for their daughters. I don't know what scares me more - that there are extreme differences in living standards or that we view one of these extremes as a form of entertainment. Either way, we should be embarrassed by the haves when the needs of the have-nots are so simple and evident. Marilyn Letts, WILMINGTON...
...where they are most needed has been an uphill battle. In November, the State Department was short volunteers to serve in the embassy in Iraq and was threatening to "direct" - diplo-speak for "order" - 48 foreign service officers to Iraq. At a town hall meeting to discuss the staffing gap, one 46-year diplomat described a posting in Iraq as "a potential death sentence." After the hubbub, enough volunteers stepped forward, so no one was ordered to go to Iraq. But the incident laid bare the cultural aversion some tweedy diplomats have to the realities of the changing world beyond...
...Penalty on Cahow. If there was ever a chance for the Terriers to close the gap this is it. Harvard is on the penalty kill without its best defender...
...she’s learning real fast,” Delaney-Smith said of Markley. “She’s an incredible athlete and is pretty tough to stop one-on-one.” Harvard went into the break leading 30-21, but Yale closed the gap early in the second half. Melissa Colborne helped cut the lead to four just a few minutes past the interval, but that was as close as the Bulldogs would get. The Yale sophomore—last year’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year—finished with...
...months, would be designed to ensure that the smaller U.S. footprint in Iraq doesn't embolden insurgents to reignite the civil war that ripped the country apart in 2006 and the first half of 2007. The U.S. military is counting on the growing Iraqi security forces to fill the gap left by the U.S. withdrawal, but wants to test that hypothesis by removing its own forces in increments...