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...offensive] string at the beginning that got [Brown] going," Mike Gilmore (a team-high 12 points) said. "It set the tone...
...must admit that some part of the strength of the program is derived from the department itself. The authors write this strength was gained "through a string of faculty recruitments," which would probably not have been successful had potential professors been asked to deprioritize their specific field under another, broader department...
Harvard's Afro-American Studies program is without doubt among the best --if not the best--in the nation. Through a string of faculty recruitments in recent years, the program has amassed an impressive array of academic all-stars. The department's chair, W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., is widely regarded as a top scholar in his field. And Gates deserves the lion's share of credit for the success of the program, using Harvard's resources and his own reputation to lure well-established professor from other universities to Cambridge. In light...
...four game-point situations, but was unable to capitalize on any of them, thanks to a string of Harvard spikes that fortuitously nicked the line...
...recognition of the plan's hidden costs is one reason why the Clinton approach seemed to be coming apart last week. But another is that the President's plan hangs on a string of interlocking parts: if one piece is removed in the legislative process, the rest of the mechanisms are quickly overloaded and bound to fail. For example, Clinton aims to pay for universal coverage in part by restraining health-care inflation through premium caps. If he backs away from caps, as he did last week, though, controlling inflation will be harder. So would be paying for universal coverage...