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Maria Merritt has lived in El Sereno the better part of 30 years.

Though the higher education system in the United States is older than the country itself—Harvard first opened its doors to students more than a century before the 1776 American Revolution—women were still not able to earn bachelor’s degrees for the better part of the century that followed the founding.

With that in mind, he has spent the better part of the past 30 days dropping by local high schools and meeting with the sport’s local powerbrokers.

For the better part of a century, America’s foreign policy has boiled down to this: We foot most of the bills and prevent bullies from rolling over weaker sovereign states.

In November of that year, Aurora went to the man’s home and had lunch delivered there, then drugged him, causing him to lose consciousness for the better part of five days, prosecutors said in the indictment.