Word: flipped
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Among the earliest to start dialing around: Wesley Clark, who entered the '04 race just a few months before the first primary but quickly stumbled with a flip-flop on how he would have voted on Congress's Iraq-war resolution. Now he is telling potential supporters, according to one he called, that he "learned from his mistakes, he knows it takes more time and preparation than he put in--and that his wife is fully on board," which wasn't true the first go-round...
...know the differences. There are those students who can wake up at 7:00 in the morning, throw on a pair of shorts and flip-flops (year-round), enthusiastically scoop froot loops, er, fruity ohs into their mouths as they discourse on Kant. And there are those who sleep through their noon classes because they only got three hours of sleep and might still be shaking off the effects of an early-morning bad trip. You know, the Mass. Hall types who occasionally play a little classical music in the ayem versus those guys who lived across the hall from...
...Carey never gets Japan quite right, but his writer's eyes always appreciate what they see. Near the end of their trip, father and son luck into a meeting with filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. The language barrier, the cultural barrier, every barrier falls away as the delighted anim? master shows flip-books of his early work, the characters dancing with life on the corner of the page. "Thank God we had no language," muses Carey. "Thank God there were no questions to ask, just the privilege of sharing the joy of a great artist telling a story to an audience...
After a Lindsay Weaver pass eluded sophomore Jennifer Sifers, Schroyer gathered the puck, swooped across the goal mouth from right to left, and beat Bears goalie Stacy Silverman on the near post with a backhand flip...
...flip side of that coin was the Harvard power play squaring off against the Brown penalty kill, ranked first in all of Division I at the start of the game. The top power-play unit, though, was able to find the chinks in the Bears armor, converting two power-play chances...