Word: adeptly
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...Such adept game management will prove even more critical as Harvard completes its Ivy schedule. The squad has already logged the same number of conference wins as its 2008 counterpart, but every Ancient Eight team is proving competitive. In fact, while Tassopoulos’ .744 save percentage ranks her 29th in the nation, this mark proves only fourth best within the conference. Yet, given the rookie’s stellar play and tremendous improvement, Caples seems more than happy to work with the personnel...
...Karzai sought to ensure his re-election by making pacts with warlords whose human-rights records would have them behind bars in most countries. Still, having been installed in power by the U.S. invasion, Karzai has proven adept at persuading the country's umpteen warlords and trigger-happy commanders to usually - although not always - settle their grudges politically rather than with arms. Afghanistan may be a mess by the measure of politics and security, but its jails are no longer filled with thousands of political prisoners; in cities and towns, girls go to schools and universities; a feisty free press...
...Iran has proven adept over the years at dividing the international community, weakening the effects of past sanctions and buying time to advance its nuclear program, which by now has enough low-enriched uranium to enable it to produce sufficient highly enriched uranium for one nuclear weapon. It seems as if the Iranian leadership may have pulled the same trick again. Perhaps Merkel really did have a more pressing engagement - the German embassy did not immediately return calls requesting an explanation. But for all the positive spin U.S. officials had put on Russia's hints of greater willingness to support...
...Kirk] has a very good sense of policy, he has a terrific sense of humor, he’s very adept at political negotiation, and he’s a very affable person,” Tribe said. “I think he will do very well in building coalitions to the extent that it’s possible in that brief a time...
...stranger to occasional discomfort. He grew up in Hyde Park--the tony South Side enclave that's home to the University of Chicago--but played a lot of basketball in one of the rougher neighborhoods nearby. Often the only white player on the court, he became adept at figuring out when to be aggressive and when to hang back. In the early 1960s, Duncan's mother started an after-school tutoring program in an inner-city neighborhood following her discovery that few of the 9-year-olds in her Bible-study class could read. "In Chicago at the time...