Word: gaps
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...middle of the first frame when it trailed Rutgers-Neward by four, 12-16. But the Crimson recovered on a 14-6 run to take the game, 30-26. In the second game, Harvard took an early lead, and although the Scarlet Raiders managed to close the gap near the end of the frame, tying it up at 26, the Crimson kept the edge. Harvard went on a 4-0 run to record another 30-26 win.Rutgers-Neward again kept it close in the third frame, but the Crimson came out on top, posting a .273 attack percentage...
...Lincoln's death was fused with Jesus' in the popular imagination?people needed Lincoln to be more than human in order to give meaning to the slaughter over which he presided. We still seem to need that, even while we know it's not true. Maybe it's that gap, between Lincoln's mortal and immortal natures, that we're trying to fill with all these words...
McGovern added that despite the improvements in overall scores, not enough progress has been made on closing the achievement gap between white and minority students...
...spend a lot of time with colleagues and professionals from a completely different culture to you, really nice people to work with, but with whom you don't feel any emotional connection. You have to constantly turn inward, and your circle becomes smaller and smaller." Navigating the gap between a European workplace and the expectations of a migrant community can be intensely stressful, says Fuad Nahdi, a commentator and consultant on Muslim issues to Blair's government: "In terms of alienation, nothing succeeds like success." For Muslims who have made it, the loneliness of the corner office...
...from the Taliban. The ISAF must walk an equally fine line: they need to win the support of civilians, but Taliban fighters move among those civilians and look just like them. And when civilians are killed in attacks on the Taliban, says Afghan Senator Hanif Hanafi, "it makes the gap between the local people and the government and ISAF wider...