Word: finer
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When you’re brought up with so-so teams, you learn to appreciate the finer points of the game. That’s a nice way of saying that it’s possible to find good qualities in losing teams—hustle, sportsmanship and, of course, great potential...
...reforms succeed best if they well up from within a nation, not when they are thrust upon it from outside. If the Administration seriously thinks otherwise, it would be nice to know what lessons it has learned from the failed imperialism of the past. And not just about the finer points of pigsticking...
...deal This oversize skateboard has a handle for learning to balance, which can then be locked down for mastering the finer techniques...
...finer arts of publishing, as of soccer, is timing. Launching Michael Crick's blockbuster biography of the Manchester United manager, The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson (Simon & Schuster; 612 pages), at the end of the English soccer season seemed a fair bet. With 14 major titles in as many seasons with the club, Ferguson and his team looked set for one or two more this time out. Instead, United lost in the semifinal of the European Championship and was edged out of the Premier League championship by an ascendant Arsenal who, days after winning the F.A. Cup, clinched...
...enjoy she should—the co-captain now owns both an Ivy League and a school record and an almost certain bid to the NCAAs. What’s more, she owns one of the finer success stories in Crimson athletics...