Word: beaten
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With her victory over Yale, Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith has now beaten every Ivy school. Delaney Smith is now in her fourth year as leader of Harvard's women cagers...
...change their minds as vengeance turns capricious and arbitrary. Salve Regalario, a guerrilla who surrendered to the military in September 1983, described the interrogation of Elmundo Serrano, a farmer accused of complicity with the military during a raid. "He would not admit he was an informer, so he was beaten. Finally he had so many wounds that I shot him." Regalario later found out that the farmer had not been in the area during the raid and was the victim of a personal grudge held by a party member...
ENTERPRISE, THEN Challenger. This isn't the first time Art has beaten Life to the pages of Newsweek; remember The China Syndrome and Three Mile Island. And it won't be the last. In the years prior to this week's tragedy, NASA had been straining its PR muscles, turning a rocket-powered bronco ride into what had begun to seem like a drive in the country. There had been so many shuttle flights flashing across our skies and our screens; they had become the norm, not the extraordinary exception...
This effect is no doubt intentional on Gilliam's part, for what he has crafted here is a tribute to the human imagination. Though the body may be shocked, beaten and tortured with a power drill, the mind is still free to escape. As is apparent in the final scene, where he soars through the clouds in a torture chair singing "Brazil," Lowry's mind gets away...
...make it to the Final Four, I'll be disappointed," Barakett says. "And if we don't make it that far it won't be because we were beaten by a better team but because we didn't play up to our potential...