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...Harvard women were looking for a "solid team effort" to sweep the weekend home-stand, hoping to get on a roll heading for the ECAC quarterfinals a mere two weeks away...
...pack, winning the Ivy title for the 1650-yard freestyle, the most grueling swimming event. Swimming with a small lead over Princeton's Tara Martin, Gustafsson found herself even with only one lap to go in the 66-lap race. She managed to out-touch Martin by a mere six hundredths of a second, finishing in 16:48.62 over Martin...
Itai, 43, left the ring in 1991 but has stepped back into the sumo spotlight with charges that much of the flesh-to-flesh combat is mere show. In his day, he told TIME, 80% of the matches were fixed, with winner and loser worked out beforehand in the dressing rooms. "Match fixing was kind of matter-of-fact among the wrestlers," says Itai, a jocular, baby-faced giant. "None of us felt any guilt...
...gaudy overstimulations are too much for our primitive nervous systems. Hypersensations engendered out of thin air (profuse consumer options, spectacular charades of sex and violence) open floodgates of adrenaline that has no sociobiological object (such as responding to actual danger). Therefore, mere untargeted anger...
...sophomore brought some managers to the hall and they were looking at our pictures on the door,i says Scott Jones, a sophomore at Northwestern University. iThey knocked on the door and asked me if I wanted to work there.i But the fierce competition is not confined to mere appearances. The coolness factor also plays a role in the hiring process. Gomes, who worked at the Abercrombie store for more than a year, watched as the storeis target group changed with its surging popularity. As the store became more mainstream, Gomes was told to look for potential employees involved...