Word: flawless
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...saber also demonstrated its prowess, losing just three times on its way to 24 victories. Freshman Alexandra Sneider is having no trouble with the transition from the high school circuit to college. The change in style of competition usually takes a toll on the rookies, but Sneider managed a flawless performance in her first team meet. “[Sneider] is taking it really well, needless to say,” said co-captain and saber fencer Samantha Parker. “She won all her bouts today, she’s fencing at a top level, really good with...
...elements that made the 1992 “Director’s Cut” a flawless film still exist. The plot remains the same: Rick Deckard (Ford) is an exhausted cop in the year 2019, where anyone with wealth or common sense has gone “off-world.” A corporation has developed genetically-engineered quasi-robots called “replicants” for work off-world, and they look, think, and feel exactly like humans—“more human than human,” according to the company?...
...needs to be said about Kyle Richter,” co-captain and defenseman Dave MacDonald said, adding, “Any [chances] they got, he was just playing confidently, and it’s nice to have that behind us.”On Saturday night, Richter looked flawless again, turning away 28 shots on goal against a Dutchmen squad that aggressively crashed the net and often pursued a vigorous forecheck as Harvard tried to clear the puck.With two shutouts to his name, he now boasts an 0.75 goals-against average and a gaudy .975 save percentage, both numbers...
...government's commitment to racial quotas has unraveled rapidly since the World Cup final on October 20. Back home, the Springboks' winning coach, Jake White, bluntly told reporters that South Africa's racial politics were driving him out of the country. White is largely credited for creating a near-flawless World Cup team, and is in talks to become England's national rugby coach. In addition to White, two star Springbok players have already signed large contracts with French teams...
...Sudan—or Burma—and their dastardly deeds, and rightfully so. But the implications of such posturing, by intimidating investment banks, shaking down corporations, and guilt-tripping college administrators, bode extremely ill for our politics.Political solutions, no matter how uncontroversial or widely supported, can never be flawless and exact. The law of unintended consequences, in so complex a subject as human beings, ensures that no plan will be foolproof. Such a realization should not force us subsequently to withhold our moral outrage against the Darfur atrocities. But to recognize the abomination is not to discover the cure...