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...Crimson received the kickoff and promptly put together a purposeful downfield drive to the Brown 35-yard line. Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick lofted a perfect pass to sophomore wide receiver Corey Mazza near the right sideline. Mazza, with a good six-inch advantage over Bears cornerback Rashad Collins, easily pulled down the ball and tumbled into the endzone to cut the deficit...
...even if a slightly higher score in “cereal selectivity” helps Harvard inch past Princeton in next year’s U.S. News rankings, what is significant about this decision is HUDS’ suspiciously self-serving motivations. The official line is that these organic and generic cereals replaced their brand-name counterparts because students requested expanded organic options in HUDS surveys. HUDS also points out that the new cereals are healthier, too. All fine justifications—if only they really accounted for HUDS’ decision, but closer examination suggests otherwise...
...rest of the first half and much of the second period a majority of the turf surface of the field was submerged in upwards of half an inch of water...
...engraved in the popular mind could not go home again. Concludes McCrum, literary editor of Britain's The Observer: "The Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home and, eventually, even greater fame after the war. As McCrum also notes, Wodehouse was every inch the Edwardian: calm in a crisis, aloof but generous (he supported an old school chum for years), quietly productive (he could pound out a novel's first draft in days), and fit as an oak (thanks to daily calisthenics). Many of those qualities can be traced to Wodehouse's Woosterish upbringing...
...know every inch of a picture by heart and it can still be a mystery. That is the secret of the Mona Lisa, a portrait so enigmatic that even endless duplication can?t make you sick of it. It?s even truer of Georges Seurat?s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884, a canvas that everyone knows but no one entirely possesses...