Word: levelness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Indeed, the sport has grown on every level. Youth leagues, sponsored by USA Hockey hold championships, and many high schools now secure ice time for women who want to do more than double axels. On a collegiate level, numbers support the trend. In 1996, there were 21 schools with women's teams, fielding a total of 414 participants. Today, women's hockey boasts 900-plus skaters from 61 schools...
Indeed, the Crimson's strength of schedule and its high level of play against the nation's best teams will likely loom large in the minds of the selection committee on Sunday. A win over Columbia tomorrow can, and should, gain Harvard a berth...
...sense that things were spiraling out of control - shootings of Israeli security guards in Jerusalem, the shooting of three Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and a stepped-up response by the Israeli military. So there was a realization on both sides that things aren't going to level off, but are threatening to escalate. Yesterday's bomb only confirms that fear...
...their terror all over Central America. Deported to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, these delinquents not only imported the mystique of U.S. gang culture - its neo-Nazi tattoos, rap music, baggy trousers and "homey" slang - but they also brought crack cocaine, semi-automatic weapons, home-made bombs and a level of calculated aggression not seen in the region since the insurgencies and counterinsurgencies...
...Coming from the U.S. gives a deportee the edge over the local gang-bangers. "These kids might have been low-level gang members back in the States, but when they come here, they're like the Nike of the gang world," says Magdalena Rose Avila, founder of Homeys Unidos, which helps deported gang members settle into Salvadoran society. "One guy I know recruited 60 or 70 soldiers to his gang in six months...