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I have chosen to continue my athletic career in football and baseball as well as my academics at Louisiana State University.


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JARED MEADOWS This report may give pause to some of the optimists looking for a stronger second half, ... We need ...
JARED BERNSTEIN Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, l...
JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
JARED DIAMOND The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer...
JARED DIAMOND Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...
JARED DIAMOND Try and fail, but never fail to try!
JARED LETO Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND We're not exactly the Brady Bunch,
JARED PADALECKI Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical...
JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
JARED DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas...
JARED DIAMOND How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
JARED DIAMOND Australia is the most isolated continent.
JARED DIAMOND Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
JARED DIAMOND The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' ...
JARED POLIS While most of my public service work centers on improving our schools and fixing our broken immigrat...
JARED POLIS Pure guts. That's Eli. I mean, he's a Manning. He's an incredible player. To be hurting the way he w...
JARED LORENZEN I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe...
JARED KUSHNER I was confident going into the second overtime because I'm at my best on the mat. In the sectional h...
JARED JAMINSKI Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.
JARED PADALECKI Guys like Bryce Treggs, Chris Harper, Kenny Lawler, Darius Powe, Richard Rodgers, Jackson Bouza. All...
JARED GOFF This decline [in the jobless rate] is certainly the largest drop we've seen in recent months, so it ...
JARED BERNSTEIN When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you ...
JARED DIAMOND I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for ...
JARED LETO We gave up a lot of easy buckets and uncontested shots [off the turnovers].
JARED DUDLEY Peter Kaplan was a giant.
JARED KUSHNER