Word: anchors
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...emerged with its second straight weekend split without the services of tri-captain Bode Ogunwole, who confirmed that he will be out for the season due to an arm injury he suffered last weekend.“Obviously it’s hard not to have Bode there to anchor the lineup,” said freshman J. P. O’Connor, who notched two victories in the Ivy League contests this weekend against Princeton and Penn. “Normally, if the match is within reach, Bode’s such a dependable guy that you can usually...
...Katie Couric's Holly Golightly party at Tiffany's. This past Sunday, the CBS news anchor donned a Holly-style frock and long black gloves and threw herself a 50th birthday party at Tiffany's Fifth Avenue flagship store. (Proceeds to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance...
...will not, given the debilitating unfinished business in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet even if a catastrophic war is unlikely, the world remains a dangerous place - made more dangerous by the condition of its prime power. The U.S. is today what Britain was during the first globalization: the anchor of the liberal world order. Those who rightly railed against the U.S. when it threw its weight around and treated its partners with contempt should now mull the question: Who is going to take care of the world's political business? China, Russia or the E.U.? Hardly...
...against his will (although it came close to forcing John Adams to make war against France in the 1790s)--providing at least some support for the notion that the processes of democratic deliberation can help keep the peace. On some occasions Congress has served as a kind of sheet anchor, restraining or even extinguishing the martial urge. In the isolationist 1930s, for example, Congress passed several neutrality statutes, aimed at keeping Franklin D. Roosevelt from intervening in the brewing international crisis that finally erupted as World War II. And on only five occasions has Congress formally declared war--each time...
...generally has to depend heavily on news agency correspondents or freelancers. There is still an air of improvisation on the set and frequently on the screen, which features more people talking about the news than it does innovative news-gathering. On the other hand, Gosset has kept his anchor spot for the channel's main talk show, and Saint-Paul, his replacement, insists he's still pushing for journalistic improvements. "The criticism of the birth will soon be forgotten," says Saint-Paul. "Our progenitor was Chirac, but that's not a label that will stick to us forever...