The student body generally compliments itself on unparalleled diversity and academic determination, despite recent detrimental external, and internal, blows.

The most recent blow came two weeks ago.

The news of the internal investigation was the heaviest of several recent blows.

The move is the second recent blow to Wal-Mart after voters rejected a store in Inglewood, Calif., less than a month ago.

It began to look as though luck had not altogether deserted him, in spite of the recent blow it had given.

He partially attributed those declines to recent blows dealt against Al-Qaeda during the surge.

Today, however, with his head still recovering from its recent blow, he took his time.

The announcement was the second recent blow to Mr. Robertson.

One side of her mouth was badly swollen by a recent blow, and a diagonal piece of one front tooth was missing.

The disclosure was another in a series of recent blows to Mr. Icahn.