Word: dweller
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With 26 seconds left on the clock, the Bulldogs’ Bonnie Smith nailed a three-pointer to bring league cellar-dweller Yale (6-21, 3-11 Ivy) within two at 67-65. The Bulldogs had a chance to tie the game with Morgan Richards on the charity stripe, but she missed the free throws and sophomore center Reka Cserny made both of hers for the Crimson with just eight seconds remaining to secure Harvard’s 69-65 win in the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn...
...middle of this outdoor sanctuary looking at the world’s largest crucifix, was not a new one. I grew up in the Midwest. Well I sort of grew up there. I’m from the suburbs of Chicago, and as many a middle-of-the-country dweller will tell you (and especially people from the city itself), Chicago is not the Midwest. But on the other hand, I also live in Lombard, IL, which is right next to Wheaton, IL, which is the hometown of superstar televangelist Billy Graham. It’s a town where teachers...
...still well worth asking. In Jennifer Government (Doubleday; 321 pages), Max Barry imagines a near future in which our lives are so dominated by our employers that we take their last names. Barry's hero, Hack Nike (see how it works?), is a low-level cubicle dweller who gets embroiled in a scheme to stage a series of killings as a promotional gimmick to sell sneakers: it's murder as advertising. Out to stop the plan is Jennifer Government, a beleaguered agent of a Federal Government so cash strapped that she has to hit up the victims for money before...
...itself not what you’d expect from a musical based on the life of a mutant cave-dweller. It’s a comedy, but it has weight to it as well...
...Summers’ top advisors, a former dweller in D.C. political circles himself, denied yesterday that Summers has advised Kerry on either the speech or his presidential campaign in general...