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...Crimson puts on a display of crisp passing, sharp shooting, and strong defense, it could bode well for a successful year. The Ivy title is not out of reach...
...pressure to keep the Crimson alive will fall on starting quartberack Mike Giardi, who put in a fine 12-24, 174-yd performance against Columbia last Saturday. With solid rushing and crisp passing, the scrambling Mather sophomore led the Crimson to 21 points in the first three quarters...
...final passage (Woolf aptly calls it her "peroration") is out of character with the rest of the play. The crisp sarcasm and dry humor deteriorate into slightly forced melodrama and moralizing that have very little Virginia Woolf in them...
Other, more exotic technologies have produced disappointment as well. Videoconferencing has largely flopped as a substitute for business travel because costly systems -- they range up to $20,000 in price -- have failed to transmit clear, crisp images and audio signals. Users complain that they are prevented from swapping notes and documents and cannot ensure privacy. They grouse about having to leave their offices and miss phone calls to use the special rooms set up for videoconferencing...
...Gates scrambled rapidly up the career ladder, starting as a junior analyst who struggled to write coherent reports after poring over mountains of information from a wide range of secret and public sources. He quickly drew praise for cogent analysis and crisp writing -- traits still evident in his scholarly articles and speeches...