Word: arcing
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...Lennox a Tony Award. Unlike Lennox’s acting, Clay’s is weak, and despite the high emotion written into the role, her performance is neither shocking nor compelling. However, her scene is isolated enough from the rest of the play not to affect the story arc too detrimentally, and she is by no means incompetent...
...could put out the effort back-to-back.”But to get a victory, Harvard must put it all together. The team exhibited great improvement in three-point field goal defense Saturday, holding a third-place Penn squad to 1-of-10 shooting from behind the arc. Its defense down low was a different story. Penn shot over 50 percent from the field in the second frame, dominating the tired Crimson squad.Bring both to the table, and Harvard can put its cliché of road toughness, finally, to its full use.“Eventually, it?...
...we’ve got to start winning some of these games.”The Crimson was able to stay close in part because of its three-point shooting defense. A weak spot all season, Harvard held Penn to just 1-of-10 shooting from beyond the arc.“It’s something we’ve struggled with all year, but we did a good job tonight,” Goffredo said. “We tried to focus on limiting opponents’ three-point percentage, but that being said, we gave...
...Perhaps allowing the rare presence of two Americans at the annual event was intended to relay the message to Washington that the so-called Rejectionist Crescent, the arc of state and non-state actors from Iran to Syria, was united in opposition to the Bush Administration's "New" Middle East. But that wasn't the only message. At the end of the evening, Ambassador Akhtire lingered long enough to say goodbye to us. "If America wants trust in the Middle East, it has to have a balanced policy based on respect, and which deals with the root causes of problems...
...years the thought of Zion warmed the minds of the world's scattered Jews. ''Next year in Jerusalem'' -- the prayer ended in an ardent sigh. The trajectory of that yearning was launched endlessly from shtetl and ghetto in the wilderness of the Diaspora. At last, 40 years ago the arc of the desire was completed, the dream implanted in history. Israel, thought David Ben-Gurion, would be a ''light unto the nations.'' In his memoirs in 1949, the first Israeli President, Chaim Weizmann, wrote about the Zionist ambition to build a ''high civilization, based on the austere standards of Jewish...