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...They seemed to be getting almost all of their goals off of transitions and fast breaks, which put our defense in an awkward situation and gave them a lot of open shots right on the crease which Jake had no chance of stopping,” Crocco said...
Belligerent cops aside, McCarthy doesn’t want to confront everyone who mistakes her for a man. “I usually don’t say anything because it just creates an awkward situation,” she says. “And if gender is such a nebulous concept anyway, why should I care what people call...
Often, this can be an intimidating and awkward experience for a student, especially at Harvard where many faculty members are highly venerated and famous in their fields. “You can’t be very timid,” Ramer says. “If you see a professor you’re really interested in, talk to them after lecture, go to their office hours...
...silly and fun, allow girls to connect with a peer who is optimistic, even though the early teens are a difficult stage in life. “I felt like Anastasia was very similar to me,” Cameron says. “She was going through an awkward phase and I felt like that too, but she was also so quirky and odd and upbeat and I could also identify with that...
...Pentagon backers perhaps hoping their man could steal a march on his rivals by taking charge of security arrangements on the ground in cities captured by the coalition. Instead, however, it appears to be the religious structures of the Shiite clergy - with which the U.S. has, at best, an awkward relationship - that have come to the fore, being the only coherent national organizational structure once the war left the Baath Party and the security services in disarray. Shiite Islam, unlike the Sunni variant, concentrates religious authority along local and regional lines. The ability of the Shiite clerical hierarchy in Najaf...