Word: curtness
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...over home run records, and McFarlane was riding the memorabilia market down. But it doesn't seem so crazy now that McFarlane Toys is the official distributor of action figures for all four major American sports. McFarlane also has individual deals with Bonds as well as outspoken Bonds critic Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox. And he credits his baseball collection with opening the doors that helped him land those deals...
...being a Kennedy means never having to leave well enough alone. Joe wanted to remain in the church, so he was willing to say that because he'd lacked "due discretion," he had never really been married. When Sheila got a curt notice of the annulment proceeding from the Boston archdiocese, she proceeded to fight. In an interview she explained that nobody "has ever been able to convince me that an annulment was in the best interest of the children, so the argument that was used to keep me in line before didn't cut the mustard this time...
...therefore to command the largest armies. He was spot on, but with no House, big or small, successfully signing up its entire population, the injustice didn’t seem that major. “Sorry, but war isn’t fair,” we wrote. Curt, perhaps, but honest...
...CURT SCHILLING, Boston Red Sox pitcher, about Roger Clemens, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner who will leave retirement to pitch (for $4.5 million a month) for the New York Yankees. Boston had also courted Clemens...
...nothing new. “Calendar reform has been on the table at Harvard since the seventies,” said Undergraduate Council [UC] representative Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10. Every time the reform movement has achieved prominence, it has been met with a curt dismissal from faculty or administration. This time around, activist leaders are hoping to learn from both the successes and the failures of the past.ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS The first episode of activism was triggered in 1973 when oil prices skyrocketed and threatened to dramatically increase the cost of heating Harvard. Some...