Word: decentering
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...scandal engulfs another Rodham, the genial, decent one, Hillary's younger brother, known as Hughie. A near constant presence in the Clintons' lives since he and brother Tony tagged along on their 1975 honeymoon, Hughie has a complicated relationship with his sister. Growing up, the little warmth their father Hugh Rodham Sr. had to give went primarily to Hillary. She was the Warrior Princess of Oak Park, Ill., beating up the boys in the neighborhood, always the captain when her brothers played "spaceship," less afraid, by her telling, of the scary flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz than Baby...
...their engines. It was, from the first, a terrific, thrilling race. If it was marred by that 19-car melee with 27 laps to go, this was offset by constant jockeying that would eventually produce 40 more lead changes than last year. Earnhardt, for his part, was having a decent day. Some dings to the Monte Carlo changed the car's aerodynamic shape and let him know before the endgame that he wouldn't be the winner. But up ahead, there was a solid chance that someone else from Dale Earnhardt Inc. would be, as Michael Waltrip and Dale...
...Harlem move, comedian Chris Rock exulted: "He's black, he's blue, he's just the best of all time." Clinton is the national bad boy, yet he is also the best. He has always seemed most comfortable in black churches, where one senses that his soul--the decent-if-boiling entity so frequently disguised by bad-boy behavior--was truly connected...
Harvard grade inflation works so that you don't fail. As long as you put in a decent amount of effort, it is likely that you get something between A and C (although certainly there are exceptions). One could call that grade inflation and claim that it gives us an advantage against students at other universities. But somehow I doubt that things are much different elsewhere, or that Yale, Princeton or the University of Pennsylvania hand out very many failing grades. Small private institutions (including Harvard), where students pay quite a lot to attend, are not looking to fail students...
...Well, the Yankees have cable TV deals, and if, for example, they were to try to get their own cable TV channel, they'd need programming. You could get a pretty decent rating for Manchester United games on cable in the U.S. The British Premiership, in which Manchester United play, is a big league - you can watch its weekly highlights just about anywhere in the world. So there are countless opportunities for cross-marketing and global programming...