Word: apartness
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...praise seems endless. Right up until Sullivan recites the Ivy mantra. It’s a three-point shooting league, and staying even or better from behind the arc is imperative to winning games. Last Friday night against Yale, the Crimson’s perimeter defense fell apart, and the Bulldogs hit nine threes on just 13 attempts. Harvard matched the number of treys, but it took nine more attempts, as the Crimson fell 82-74. Junior guard Jim Goffredo led Harvard with three trifectas on the evening en route to a relatively quiet game-high 21 points...
...Edwin Edwards notoriously said in 1983, "is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy." Brokeback Mountain would have to go further to lose this year's Academy Awards race for best picture, since the live boys is what set the movie apart at first and helped position it as the Oscar film to beat...
...fate of Barry Jefferies is causing nightmares for state and territory governments that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year trying to keep crocodiles and human beings apart. With more than 100,000 crocodiles living around the coast from Bundaberg, Queensland, to Derby, Western Australia, it's a daunting task. Each attack draws calls for a cull of the reptiles, which have been protected by law since the early '70s, and fresh concerns about the effectiveness of management programs. The Queensland government says its crocodile-control strategy - monitoring populations, removing crocodiles identified as a threat and educating people about...
...that their favorite reality shows are cast, contrived and edited to be dramatic may have no idea how brazen the fudging can be. Quotes are manufactured, crushes and feuds constructed out of whole cloth, episodes planned in multiact "storyboards" before taping, scenes stitched together out of footage shot days apart...
...book, The Poetics of Modernity. And over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also keep them apart. "I wanted to read certain omnipresent phenomena through this ambivalence," says Jones via e-mail. "The telephone for example is often represented as an estranging and distancing mechanism. I decided to go the other way and suggest that it may also represent new forms of intimacy, confession, radical disclosure...