Word: breaking
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Yale was able to cut Harvard’s double-digit lead down to seven with a 5-0 run just before the break as Markley sat and watched from the bench, but that was as close as the Bulldogs would get for the rest of the game...
With Harvard already moving on in the tournament, freshmen Kristin Norton at No. 3 and No. 95 Sophie Chang at No. 5 each won in a super tie-break, while sophomore Sam Gridley lost in her abbreviated third...
...never won, or even finished better than sixth. (France has won fully half of the contests to date.) Ten days ago, a young cook named James Kent, who helps run the kitchen in New York City's Eleven Madison Park restaurant, was anointed as this year's hope to break the jinx. Given the splendor of the food he produced in the qualifying contest, and the nanotech precision of his four-star kitchen - not to mention the months of training and coaching he'll receive - there's every reason to believe Kent will do better than the U.S.' best ever...
...doesn't take much for cooks to become obsessed with competition. The dining public already tends to think in sports terms anyway. Every city magazine has a "best of" issue whose every category is hotly debated. The stars the local paper gives out make or break restaurants by telling uncertain diners with limited money to spend where they can blow it with the minimum risk. Chefs like to say that they just want to feed people, or, more wussily still, "make my guests happy." But the truth is that they got into the business because they were creative and driven...
...could separate the superior skaters from the also-rans. Forget about the numbers systems or physics formulas. I was looking to discover which teams pulled together the entire package, mixing sheer athleticism with sublime grace. Which teams would prevent a person from even dreaming about taking a bathroom break during their routines, like the baseball player who compels you to drop everything while he's at bat? In a sport like figure skating, in which there's no finish line to crown a clear-cut winner, you might as well judge with your...