Word: achillesã
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...nine months, the tunnel was the project’s Achilles??€™ heel—literally the only piece of CGIS awaiting permission after last December...
...passion for jazz rules and ultimately ruins his personal life. Infused with wry humor, the Tony-award winning show demonstrates that the life of a professional artist is never simple: music is at once Gene’s sole source of spiritual manna and his proverbial Achilles??€™ heel. As they gather in a draughty and cramped rehearsal room on a freezing Wednesday evening, the link between Side Man’s cast of Harvard theatrical stalwarts and the devotion to artistic practice presented in the play is obvious...
...Harvard secondary, the Achilles??€™ heel of many a Crimson team, has played erratically this season. Saturday was no exception as the Crimson defensive backs combined for two dropped interceptions and four pass interference penalties and gave up a slew of third-and-long conversions that kept Big Red drives moving. They also gave up three touchdown passes, two of which were jump balls thrown to the smallest receiver on the field (Cornell senior Keith Ferguson, who checks...
...past seven months, the lone problem has been the tunnel, which planners have described as crucial to CGIS—but it has also become the project’s Achilles??€™ heel, as obtaining the easement for the tunnel requires permission from two-thirds of the Cambridge city council...
...defendants hope to kill that dream. The current defenses of Bagosora and Milosovic seem to be torn from the same page. They both have chosen to impede the court’s proceedings by attacking its legitimacy. And their defense may be working. Bagosora and Milosovic have found the Achilles??€™ heel by playing right into Western insecurities about international authority over sovereign nations and their leaders. Take away their names, adjust a few statistics, and one could be looking at a pro-Western general and politician...