Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Except for Chijoff-Evans’ three-setter (4-6, 6-3, 6-0), all of Harvard’s losses came in straight sets...
...looking forward to a good Ivy match for the foil squad.” “Our women’s foil squad is probably the overall best in the country,” Brand said. “We’ve defeated every top school except Notre Dame, but based on the record, I think we have the best foil squad in the country.” The foil got some help from three other outstanding performances. The épée set the tone, with rookie Noam Mills and senior Maria Larsson posting undefeated afternoons...
...Everything about the film is predictable, except for our growing discomfort with Zellweger. It is rare, and awful, to watch an Oscar winner valiantly attempt to convince us, against all evidence to the contrary, that it makes sense for her to be playing girlish and cute in a negligible comedy. She's about to turn 40, which absolutely does not mean she's no longer allowed to fall in love onscreen. But Zellweger has undeniably changed since her Bridget Jones's Diary days, and her fitness to continue in the same romantic-comedy vein as Bridget is very much...
...said that this whole Lampoon was worthless except for one person, and that was John Updike,” he said, recalling a review of the humor magazine that he penned...
...Washington that almost qualifies as business as usual, except for a small detail: on the campaign trail, Obama vowed to stop the revolving door that lets onetime lobbyists go to work for the Federal Government and oversee contracts that could harm - or help - their former employer. And one of the first things the new President did in office was seemingly make good on that promise, signing an Executive Order barring former lobbyists from joining his Administration to work at agencies they recently lobbied. (See pictures of Obama's Inauguration...