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...offense was marked by excellent passing and good distribution. On many possessions, Marist got a good inside shot without the ball ever touching the floor--basically, the passes were crisp, quick and left the Harvard defenders confused...
While Harvard was playing aggressively, it just couldn't seem to make crisp passes, and the team seemed frustrated, going into the half down...
...command of everything from GATT to the gap in wages. But Americans learned that Bill Clinton has far less command over his character, and that may have left them with a yearning for a less complicated President. In Texas, Bush is known as a skilled manager and a confident, crisp decision maker. He has pursued, for the most part, simple, understandable policy goals and has stuck to his agenda with remarkable discipline. But on the national stage these past eight months, a competing image of Bush has appeared--that of a cautious, staff-dependent candidate, likable but lacking gravitas...
...official courtroom artists at the Unabomber trial, I sat only a few feet away from Kaczynski when he pleaded guilty. I could see his face as he answered each charge of murder with a crisp assent. Unseen by the gallery, he even laughed during a private exchange with an attorney as the charges were being read. I was chilled, not only by the tragic events that left anguished relatives, maimed victims and grieving widows in their wake but especially by the remorseless behavior of the man responsible. If those eyes weren't the eyes of "a sicko," then they belonged...
...first priority in this project; rather, the folders were originally created for a fundraising project (targeting alumni, our parents, Harvard budget-makers). You can see it in the tinsel-text, in the matte photographs, in the half-hearted attempt at a user's guide and especially in the crisp little compliments card...