Word: drawn-out
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Against Yale, the women's troubles snowballed as Yale entered the contest with confidence and momentum following its defeat of Princeton. In one of the Crimson's few bright spots against Yale, sophomore Tammy Knutsen shut down Yale junior Hannah Appel in a drawn-out 5-4 match...
...systematically refute the prosecution's case on key factual issues -- which is why it may ultimately suit them to lose the battle over calling witnesses. Of course, the White House will publicly maintain its opposition to witnesses -- if only to make sure that the political cost of a drawn-out, messy trial is born by the Republicans...
...down in a flurry of recriminations. The President has already invested 57 hours in the talks, but both Israelis and Palestinians don't share his sense of the significance of the summit. "The talks aren't even the lead item on the TV news here," says Beyer. "This whole drawn-out high-level summit is inappropriate for the issues at stake here -- they're negotiating over the details of a single clause of the Oslo Agreement, but Washington is treating it with the same sense of drama as if it were a peace treaty between nations...
...last week by barely reprimanding six male students for a stream of sexually explicit remarks, contact and violations of privacy 18 months after the charges were made. Though the disciplinary boards were in organizational transition when the case was brought to its attention, this is no excuse for the drawn-out process...
Drag is the hallmark of this unwieldy film, and we're not talking about Lady Chablis. Clint Eastwood's lumbering adaptation of John Berendt's bestseller falls short of expectations, rendering the unique pantheon of Savannah personalities as mere cartoons and focusing too much on a long, drawn-out murder trial. John Cusack fumbles through the role of the script's too-young, too-straight stand-in for Berendt's narrator. But despite these flaws, Kevin Spacey shines as Jim Williams, the enigmatic gay antiques dealer who kills his lover in what may or may not have been self-defense...