Word: cements
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Beat Yale in the 118th installment of the Game, and the Crimson would cement this season as one of the best ever. Harvard (8-0, 6-0 Ivy) would win the Ivy League title outright and complete its first perfect season since...
...aesthetic of immediacy and edge. (Next year NBC will air a real-time Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom, tentatively titled 23:12 for the average length of a sitcom minus ads.) But the format is a pain to pull off. The tight time frame means the first few episodes cement choices that will be hard to reverse if the creators have second thoughts. "We had to lay out a map, literally, of where people were at what hour," says Fox entertainment president Gail Berman. "If somebody's 45 minutes from somebody, you can't just cut to the next scene...
...related calls a week. "Tuesday night in a suburb outside Charlotte, someone reported a plane dropping white powder over a children's center," says McCrory. The city issued a full alert, closed the roads, and sent in men in contamination suits. Turns out the white powder was from a cement plant next door; a plane happened to go by, but nothing was dropped. Anyone else want to be mayor right...
...Allah Mahmad is an example of the human cement that holds together the opposition Northern Alliance. In other times he would have been a farmer, working in the lush wheat fields and fruit orchards of the Shomali Plain around Bagram. Instead, at 27, he has seen six years of combat. With his high-set cheekbones, goatee, checked shawl and round woolen cap he bears a passing resemblance to Ahmad Shah Massoud, the assassinated commander who assembled these forces. In a conventional army Allah Mahmad would be a captain. Here he's called commander, a hard-earned rank denoting his seniority...
...soundly at night’,” he explains. And the ropes do not budge. When in the “down” position the bed frame itself rests on the wooden structure. But when up, the frame and mattress are counter weighted by four two-pound cement blocks. It’s incredibly sturdy. “I’m confident that it could hold four to five people, but it’s only been tested with two so far,” says Matchett...