Word: quiteness
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...Bloodwell, for instance, loves Crimson softball. Always has, and probably always will. Last season, the junior History concentrator was a tri-captain for the squad that won its second straight Ivy title and finished 11-3 in the league. Despite her love of the sport and her teammates, Bloodwell quit the team over the summer, citing a desire to explore what other things Harvard has to offer...
...couple of years' education is all their daughters need to become good housewives. Other girls in the area attend classes only because international aid groups give extra food to refugee families that send their daughters to school. Most of the teachers are still in their teens and will quit their jobs once they marry. The school's 17-year-old history instructor, who asked not to be named, studied the subject for just two years. She giggles shyly when asked to cite examples of Afghanistan's heritage. "We invented the burka, I think," she says, after much thought. Just then...
...Atef Abayat, in a car-bomb explosion in Bethlehem was seen as part of the Israeli response to Ze?evi?s murder. Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia and dozens of other countries as public health officials examined letters and packages containing suspicious powder, but found nothing. NORTHERN IRELAND Unionists Quit Protestant leaders resigned from the power-sharing government in Belfast, pushing Ulster's home rule closer to total collapse. Unionists said they would return only if the Irish Republican Army began disarming within a week. Although the I.R.A.'s political wing Sinn Fein hinted that progress was possible, the tight...
...quit Visa International last year to help start Open Business Exchange, which delivers invoices electronically. In Europe and the U.S. more than 15 billion invoices are processed each year at an estimated cost of nearly $14 each because 95% of bills are processed manually...
...still furious at Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who received the anthrax- laced letter but announced that terrorists wouldn't scare the Senate into recessing early. (Hastert and Gephardt insist that Daschle reneged on an agreement the House and Senate leaders had at the beginning of last week to quit early. Daschle insists he never made such an agreement. Just for the record, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott is standing behind Daschle...