Word: breather
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Yale: As mentioned, captain Todd Scott is really a middle linebacker. He is very solid and one of the best in the league. However, the Bulldogs have some youth and inexperience beside him, and Scott's replacement when he needs a breather after playing tailback is a freshman, Peter Mazza...
...that there is a serious crisis in Asia, but if everybody takes the necessary, and in some cases painful, steps, there won't be an Asian meltdown," says TIME White House Correspondent Jay Branegan. "They're saying 'The Asian miracle is not over, the Asian miracle is taking a breather,' and they hope it'll be a relatively short breather, because the economic fundamentals remain sound...
...that there is a serious crisis in Asia, but if everybody takes the necessary, and in some cases painful, steps, there won?t be an Asian meltdown,? says TIME White House Correspondent Jay Branegan. ?They?re saying ?The Asian miracle is not over, the Asian miracle is taking a breather,? and they hope it?ll be a relatively short breather, because the economic fundamentals remain sound...
Perhaps Dartboard just misses New York these days. We can't wait until Thanksgiving to take a breather and plunge into the cradle of neurotic civilization. But at least this weekend we can pretend, as we vicariously screw up personal relationships, kvetch to shrinks, boil lobsters and just generally make the world a crazier place...
...newsroom feared that Willes, an economist by training, might appoint himself editor. Instead he anointed the respected (and reassuringly rumpled) Michael Parks, the paper's 53-year-old managing editor (and a Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent). Coffey tried to put on a good face, saying he needed "a breather" after an eight-year run that included the O.J. Simpson trial, fires, floods, racial tensions inside and outside the newsroom--and four Pulitzers. But his goodbye statement spoke volumes: "There's a season for everything," he said, "and mine here has ended--happily, proudly, in midstride...