Word: blowingly
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...anything to help our team this year,” O’Leary said. “I have confidence [that] I know what it takes to be a championship team, but you can never stop learning.”Whether the team—which suffered a blow to its position of national prominence last year, missing an NCAA bid for the first time in nine seasons—can translate Lofgren’s success into team success is yet to be seen. But what is known, and will hopefully help Radcliffe in the upcoming season...
...which he sponsors at the prestigious Brookings Institution, boasts Harman among its biggest fans. "When the Saban Center talks, I listen," Harman said at a Saban Center briefing in February on U.S. strategy in Iraq. Harman quipped that, in order to attend the session at Brookings, she had to "blow off" a senior intelligence official's appearance before a House committee...
...left with Vietnam - albeit different interpretations of Vietnam. As Professor Juan Cole points out, Bush is probably relying on a hawkish view that while the Tet Offensive was a major military defeat for the Viet Cong, the spike of violence it brought may have struck a crippling political blow at the American public's will to fight the war. As Cole notes, the irony is that the upside of Tet may not be the first thing that comes to mind for Americans when their President compares Iraq to Vietnam - it may be more likely to confirm the belief that Iraq...
...have been at war. We've had to spend a lot of money on defense and homeland security. We did go through the aftermath of 9/11, which dealt a significant blow to the economy. We had a recession when we came in. We had Katrina that was one of the worst natural disasters in history...
...opera star, two gatecrashers steal the show. A platinum-haired English teacher and her friend from Melbourne, arms akimbo, launch into a rendition of early David Bowie: "There's a starman waiting in the sky/ He'd like to come and meet us/ But he thinks he'd blow our minds?" Surreal but pitch-perfect, their performance is not unlike the orchestra tour itself?and nothing gets lost in translation...