Word: asterisked
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...advantage, and we were able to put on a lot of speed.” The Crimson finished ninth in the B-division with 166 points, and 15th in the D-division with a total score of 250. Knowles’ D-division score, however, comes with an asterisk attached, as he had just found out on Thursday afternoon that he would be filling in for sick co-captain Sloan Devlin. “[Matt] was just thrown in there at the last minute, he wasn’t supposed to sail,” Lynch said...
...Crimson knows that there’s an asterisk right next to that achievement—Harvard finished in first place, but so did three other teams...
...Geneva summit did not set a press attendance record (14,000 covered last year's Democratic Convention in San Francisco, for example), it probably rates at least an asterisk for the most reporters and technicians on hand to collect the least news. The event also marked Moscow's most ambitious effort yet to get its message across to the world media. In an attempt to match the Reagan Administration's well-honed communication skills, the Soviets set up shop a week before the summit at the International Conference Center, a concrete-block house dubbed "the bunker" and home...
...muscled targets. The iconic figures of the sport’s recent post-strike resurgence—McGwire, Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa, among others—have fallen under the shadow of a suspicion that threatens to destroy their reputations and place a more permanent and shameful asterisk than the one that was applied to Maris’ 61 next to the bloated offensive records of the last 10 years...
...only more radical, especially as genetic engineering grows more advanced. When people of means can buy sharper brains and stronger bodies for themselves or better genetic profiles for their kids, juiced-up athletes will be the least of our ethical worries. If Giants slugger Barry Bonds deserves an asterisk next to his home-run records, maybe we will deserve asterisks next to our salaries, our sexual conquests and our kids' SAT scores...