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...role as kicking specialist, going 3-for-8 on field goals and missing two potential game-winners in Ivy contests. Toward the end of the season, Harvard Coach Tim Murphy had lost confidence in his kicking game and decided to go to a "four down" offense rather than botch further field goal attempts...
...have switched places again (the party of Lincoln lost the Florida black vote this year by something like a 9-to-1 margin) and some new election-by-brain-implant comes under dispute, it might seem perfectly natural to let politicians do the refereeing when the judges and lawyers botch the job. Al Gore and the Democrats may feel angry and cheated by the political/philosophical divisions of a Court they complained about all through the campaign. But revenge is only four years away...
Fortunately, Castilian Spanish tends to be better pronounced and slower cadenced than elsewhere in Latin America. "Even when you botch up, it's worth it," notes Peter Moller, 58, a retired Colorado college professor who took a brushup course and then led a trip to the Galapagos. "People in Latin America are very understanding." Even so, those contemplating language immersion might want to learn the basics at a community college, then plunge in talking upon arrival...
...format suited Gore; his footwork, carriage and impressively human gesticulations left Bush looking a little wan and hunched, and he scored a layup by explaining Bush's education policy for him. But the vice president never stole the show. Bush, after a nervous beginning in which he managed to botch his Carnahan-condolence line (though at least it was brief - Gore's sounded like an Oscar speech), settled down. He boiled down the tax cut/estate tax question resoundingly ("It's a fairness issue. It's an issue of principle, not politics") and delivered suitably grave response to the death penalty...
Except that homeowners who botch their deck repairs don't usually end up clogging the whole neighborhood with their debris. In the courts, while some pro se filers are very effective, many more wreak havoc and delay. "They don't know how to get the forms. They don't know how to fill them out," says Lisa Kahn, a circuit-court judge in Viera, Fla. Some pro se litigants drag out hearings to punish their spouse. They call women judges by their first name. They turn in forms blotched with suspicious stains. And God help them if their opponent...