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Although they closed the gap to two several times in the last few minutes, the hoopsters could never even the score. Each time Harvard made a bid, the Wildcats dug in with textbook ball control. Martha Morrison, who frustrated Crimson defenders all night with beautiful passing and 16 points of her own, countered Boutillier's jump shots and kept the game out of Harvard's reach...
Dean Hsieh laughs when I tell him my boss in the textbook sales company still does bai bai. "No one does that anymore," he says. "In some ways, Michael Yang is very old-fashioned...
...authored the two-volume "History of Civilization," a standard high school and college history textbook...
Later in the book, in an essay called "Were Dinosaurs Dumb?," Gould takes us back to third grade and quotes from his textbook, the 1948 edition of Bertha Morris Partker's Animals of Yesterday, which the author admits he stole from P.S.26. Presenting the prevalent view of the huge reptiles, Gould writes...
...textbook military style, the generals now ruling Turkey consolidated their hold over the country last week with the formation of a strongly right-of-center cabinet, a set of harsh new martial law decrees, and draconian economic measures...