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"These women have had nothing. Now we'll have one of the best in the Big Ten.”

Jane Meyer, senior associate director of athletics, expressing enthusiasm for the upgrade in facilities for the rowing team created by the new P. Sue Beckwith Boathouse (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Sept. 17, 2009).

“Harkin probably wants to give him a setting in which he can prove that he's a serious elected official, that he's just not a comedian to get elected. This is a chance for him to kind of show off his substantive skills, and he's also a man in the news. He just won his election after a long, highly publicized struggle."

Cary Covington, associate professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, musing on U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s choice of U.S. Sen. Al Franken as speaker at Harkin’s annual steak fry (Des Moines Register, Sept. 11, 2009).

"What we are doing is taking a resource and instead of demolishing it, we are refurbishing and bringing it back to its original condition."

Jeff Harney, project manager for UI Facilities Management, describing the renovation of Old Music Building into Stuit Hall, a facility that will ease crowding for faculty, staff, and students in the UI Department of Psychology (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Sept. 1, 2009).

"You start with a little pain, then everything north and south of it has to compensate. It's not enough to concentrate on the knee."

John J. Callaghan, professor of orthopaedic surgery in the Carver College of Medicine, explaining the importance when treating knee pain of exercises that strengthen the entire leg and hip (San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 26, 2009).