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...comprehensive nature of Holland's victory. Holland's 4-2-3-1 formation is built for maximum attacking speed. And Italy's defense, without its captain Fabio Cannavaro, couldn't handle the pressure, especially with its own three-man midfield. There was no controversy on the second goal, just awe, as Dirk Kuyt, filling in for the injured Arjen Robben, collected a long pass on the right after a breakout and found Sneijder racing to the near post. Sneijder's volley left Italian keeper Gianluigi Buffon at sea, and the rest of Italy's defense without a life vest. Giovanni...
...Dantono ’10 asked in disbelief. The battle-weary pair ignored the skepticism. Tan and DeSantis took their last triumphant bites at 3:07 p.m, and hugged each other affectionately. At a small table in the middle of airy Cabot dining hall, the two contestants sat in awe of the epic challenge they had just completed. And then, as abruptly as it started, it was over: Tan slowly walked to the shuttle, and DeSantis wandered up to her room to sleep off her twelve chickwiches...
...Capone,” each one differentiating his product as if he were selling candy bars. Moskos explains the sophistication of a street-level drug deal—from lookouts and moneymen to slingers and hired muscle—in a way that inspires some awe for such inner-city entrepreneurship. These stories reveal the conditions of Baltimore in a way that is no less useful than methodological research—if you choose to believe what the author claims to have lived through...
...Hospital, was my chauffeur and confidante. The rock star of baked goods, Mark Furstenberg, served as my bagel research paper advisor. Dr. Walter Willet, the most cited nutritionist in the world, and his equally illustrious contemporaries were my dinner companions. I was home yet tongue-tied with awe. After arguing for years with my hopelessly carnivorous friends that eating healthfully doesn’t mean sacrificing taste, I finally found myself in a roomful of people who were making their career out of just that philosophy. The Healthy Kitchens’ motto?...
...location. "I felt like I had just knocked one out of the park. I thought, You know what? This is the big turning point for me," he says. But when he went back to Los Angeles, it became "this huge anticlimactic thing that basically took on different shades of awe, wonder, acceptance, bitterness or disassociation for the next-what year is it?-17 years. There was this kind of lull, and I never really found any momentum to focus my creative energy after that, so pretty expectable things happened...