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...Moments later, Nolan’s ally, Luc D. Schuster, said he and Nolan had twice sponsored unsuccessful measures to put millions of dollars under the control of principals—money he suggested would be spent directly on students...
...well-received that 46 players decided to stay in Cambridge to continue their summer workouts with the team, twice as many as the previous summer, when the captainship was in flux and a performance at Harvard’s annual end-of-summer Skit Night resulted in the dismissal of a wide receiver low on the depth chart...
...city of both authors: Dickens may have seen the Thames as "essentially a river of tears and darkness," writes Ackroyd, but "you could aways be sure he knew in which direction the tide was moving." Those tides were vital to London becoming the center of global trade, with the twice-daily rise and fall of the Thames providing an easy passage for trading ships to the heart of the city. By the 16th century an estimated 2,000 vessels and 3,000 watermen were on the river at any one time, and by 1800 it was so choked that ships...
...resistance training, a combination of both, or none. For 22 weeks, the aerobic group worked out for 45 minutes three times a week on the treadmill or stationary bicycle; the resistance-training group spent an equal amount of time on weight machines. The combination group was at the gym twice as long as the other two exercise groups, doing the full aerobic plus weight-training regimens. "We built up gradually to 45 minutes, but it's certainly vigorous," says Dr. Ronald Sigal, lead author of the study and associate professor of medicine and cardiac sciences at the University of Calgary...
...enjoy sitting through a cut of I'm Not There if it were twice its current length, or half. At 135 mins. (about the same as Across the Universe), the film almost dares a viewer to choose favorite parts, and others for pruning. The section in which Gere as an older Bob hunts for his lost dog baffled and bored me; the Franklin and Bale parts I found quite moving; Blanchett is worth watching through her character's triumphs, disasters and longueurs. Overall, I'm glad I was there...