Word: circuitousness
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...encore. Last year’s Harvard Crimson Female Rookie of the Year, sophomore foilist Emily Cross already boasted a Junior World Championship title and All-America status. With such an accomplished resume, even she did not know what more she could do to prove herself on the junior circuit. And then she helped the Harvard fencing squad to its best season ever. After that: a repeat of her Junior Worlds glory. It was an improbable ending to a season that started off slowly; despite strong performances in Ivy play, Cross struggled in international competition. “There...
...constitutes unabated piracy of ‘Gone With the Wind.”’But “The Wind Done Gone” wasn’t gone for long.Just one month later, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction, saying the order “amounts to an unlawful prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment.” That year, Randall’s book hit The New York Times’ bestseller list. But the legal fight had left Randall shaken...
...busy, too, you know-like with my lecture circuit you won't attend," Gore said, alphabetically ticking off some of the thousand-plus places where he had recently shown slides of melting icebergs, eroding coastlines, and flooded New Orleans streets. When he hit Geneva, Switzerland, Bush interjected...
...father was a Nebraska congressman, and Baldridge went on to become head of Scovill, which makes fasteners for much of the world?s apparel. His biography notes: "Baldrige worked during his boyhood as a ranch hand and earned several awards as a professional team roper on the rodeo circuit. He was a Professional Rodeo Man of the Year in 1980 and was installed in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1984. Baldrige once appeared on the television game show To Tell the Truth pretending to be rodeo tie-down roping champion Dean Oliver." The cowboy businessman...
Since leaving politics, there's something Gore appears to have discovered he is very good at, and that is earning a living. Friends say he has come to enjoy the luxury of a private life. He has a busy schedule on the lecture circuit, earning as much as $150,000 a speech. The technophile former Vice President has been a part-time adviser to Google since 2001, and while he refuses to say how he is compensated, the guessing in Washington is that Gore has accumulated a hefty chunk of its stock. Forbes magazine reports that the 60,000 options...