Word: acing
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What he knew then, what we all know now, is that 1,600 miles away in Colorado he had a considerable ace up his sleeve. Six years ago, he had won a competition to design the addition to Denver's principal art museum, which its director, Lewis Sharp, was pushing to expand into a more significant institution. At the time, Libeskind, now 60, had completed just one major commission, but that building was the Jewish Museum, an architectural thunderbolt that would be endlessly talked about, contested and studied for its zigzag configurations. It took a leap of faith for Sharp...
Albany's an ace place for grommets and grommettes. White-powdered beaches overlook whales flipping in King George Sound, all set in a landscape seemingly formed to fire the youthful imagination: from Mount Many Peaks to the crumbling ruins of the town's whaling past. Says 15-year-old surfer Wade Costello: "Everything you need is here...
...Tata's answers is the $2,200 car, a four-door, rear-engine runabout that he designed himself and that is currently under development (he aims to sell a million of them a year in India after its release in 2008). Another is the Ace, a 700cc truck that Tata Motors sells for less than $5,000 and, since its launch in southern India in May 2005, has accounted for two-thirds of all trucks sold domestically. Purchases of these vehicles are supported by low-interest consumer loans from Tata Finance. Following the same model, Tata's hotel chain...
...Yankees ace Mike Mussina, a Stanford (but not Stamford) grad, is a noted solver, in ink, of crosswords. (He enjoys other word and trivia games. A couple weeks ago the Times noted that Moose and his catcher whiled away a rain delay compiling a list of TV actors who had starred in three hit series. Anyone? Anyone? Hint: consider the initials...
...being delayed like a Continental Airlines flight. Do you think that Horace advised everyone “Carpe Diem!” for nothing? The last approach is the best of all approaches. It’s the Johnnie Walker Blue Label of approaches, or the pocket rockets, Ace-10-10 on the flop, and another Ace on the turn. In any case, this approach involves your being active right now. You had a solid Harvard experience, and your sentiments regarding Harvard are probably much the same as those of the “passive procrastination” alums...