Word: deviled
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...dominance, South Africa beat the Aussies 2-1, Australia's first series loss on home ground in 16 years. During that time, the Australian team redefined the five-day version of the game - the only one purists believe merits the devotion they bestow on it - incorporating the sort of devil-may-care style of play hitherto confined to the one-day game (in which each side scores more rapidly). The Australians made test cricket (which even its lovers concede can be deadly dull) thrilling...
...mine, Veronica Fowler of Ames, Iowa, decided to throw a last-minute bash - not a holiday party but a "poverty" party. About 30 people showed up, dutifully following the invitation?s instructions to bring a "dish to share, a [cheap] bottle of wine, a hard-luck story and a devil-may-care attitude." Fowler, 46, a freelance writer and editor whose guests were mainly fellow media types and academics in their 40s and 50s, says, "It was fun to spit in the eye of impending doom. All of this tension is a lot more tolerable if you can have some...
...League. The victory continued the momentum the Crimson established before the break, posting a 121-108 victory over Arizona State (0-3) on Dec. 19 at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center in Tempe, Ariz.Although Harvard was able to overcome strong Navy and Sun Devil teams, the Crimson was presented with the toll of a long winter break and looming exams.“Like the rest of the team, I struggled from the training and from coming back after not being here for a while,” Guernsey said. “Exams are hitting, so it?...
...diary while he was studying classics at Cambridge in the 1840s. Now, for the first time in more than a century, his work is being republished in An American In Victorian Cambridge: Charles Astor Bristed's "Five Years in An English University." His rich account of Cambridge's devil-may-care student life is part memoir, part instructional guide: it offers tips on navigating the city's twisting streets and preparing for the university's notoriously difficult exams, while also divulging how students weaseled their way out of them. (See TIME's Top 10 non-fiction books of the year...
...with Bagosora's conviction, human rights campaigners are in a forgiving mood. As far as it can be said about anyone, Bagosora was evil. In his book Shake Hands With The Devil, Romeo Dallaire, the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission when the Rwandan genocide began, described meeting Bagosora after the worst of the killing ended. "With menace in every line of his face, he promised that if he ever saw me again he would kill me," wrote Dallaire, who would later testify for the prosecution in Bagosora's case. The fact that such a man will spend the rest...