Word: clouded
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...beautiful weekend wasn’t it?Cambridge gave us all the best parts of autumn: the freezing cold rain, muddy tracks, continual cloud cover. It just felt so unbelievably horrible to be outside. Yay!Thank goodness for football. Man, without that old pigskin on the old telly, I would have been so bummed. Like, imagine the waves swelling really high, but you just broke your board yesterday on some crunchy rocks. Bro, that bummed.But last weekend was different. Maybe it was the weather, or maybe it was the debate hangover, but Saturday was ugly. The top-25 saw upsets...
...Then there's the fact that an executive's normally sound judgment can quickly cloud over when it comes to sports. "A lot of [sponsors] have been involved in football on the basis of someone's hobby," says Simon Chadwick, a professor of Sport Business Strategy and Marketing at Coventry Business School. When the boss of one leading British firm opted to back a poorly performing English cricket team in recent years, "people were asking 'Why?'" Chadwick says. "The fact was [the boss] was a big cricket fan. That was the only reason." At the least, such vanity can leave...
...training paramilitaries - an accusation he denies - was arrested Tuesday after witnesses claimed that the gunmen at Porvenir were regional government officials under the Prefect's command. Fernandez has not commented on claims he was involved. While the arrest is likely to please Morales' base, it may cloud prospects for stabilizing the situation through dialogue. Opposition leaders Tuesday Opposition leaders demanded the release of Fernandez and all "political prisoniers" apprehended on charges relating to last week's violence. While the opposition leaders left the door open for dialogue, the incarceration of Fernandez doesn't bode well for negotiations...
...lacked the magic; that Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee were never going to be more than character actors; and that Rudy Giuliani was a one-hit wonder as a leading man. While the runners-up looked on bravely, Palin blew past them to the head of the line, a cloud of snow and mystery in her wake. (See photos of Sarah Palin here...
...single major law or reform - not even in the state senate," she said. "This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word victory except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan...