There, she sees and endures the rigors of barracks life, then wanders off the base and meets an old townswoman who invites her to her home an apartment building that, like all the others, has been shattered in attacks by the Russian Army.

NEWYORKER: Alexandra

Other things constant, (1) kids with a better quality high school education are more likely to be prepared for the rigors of college life, and (2) kids that come from a more stable household and neighborhood environment as a youth are more likely equipped in terms of maturation to succeed academically in college.

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Even if the climax feels fantastical (well suited to the horror-friendly talents of the director, Stuart Gordon), you should stay for the battered irony of the anticlimax, which finds our hero settling down, once again, to the rigors of a regular life.

NEWYORKER: Edmond

While Lyon's players have been busy wiping the sweat from their brow and basking in the exotic temperatures of the Principality, Epinal's players were trying to fit the rigors of training into everyday life.

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The barracudas notwithstanding, it is a halcyon escape from the rigors of a sometime vicious social life.

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