Word: fooling
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...issues, say any solvency crisis could be decades away. They accuse Obama of buying into the dire scenarios with which the Bush Administration tried--unsuccessfully--to partially privatize the system. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went so far as to write that Obama had been "played for a fool." Adds a Clinton strategist: "This whole conversation is bewildering. Every Democrat in America has spent the past several years arguing that Social Security is not in a crisis...
...access to the millions of books within the library, it is really up to you how to abuse them. You could literally make a pile of books in a corner and take a big dump right on top of them. Or steal some. But beware. After you manage to fool the detectors by de-magnetizing the books, you’ll have to face the awesome power of the security guards who just might check one of the fourteen pockets of your backpack for a book. That’s deterrence if I’ve ever seen it. (Finally...
...everything. I thought Dartmouth was a really well-coached football team—they played extremely hard.”And Murphy would know, as the battle pitted him against longtime friend and Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens. Both coaches dug deep into their play books to try to fool the other; Murphy’s tricks included run plays with a few unlikely ball carriers.After Big Green quarterback Alex Jenny connected with Julian Collins for a 55-yard touchdown pass with 4:28 left in the third quarter to tie the game at 14, Harvard turned to freshman backup...
...special Halloween edition of Around the Ivies for the countless Ancient Eight football fans who’ll be dressing up as superheroes or vampires or zoo animals or Pokemon characters and trolling for candy this week. On the gridiron, costumes won’t fool fans any longer. It’s already Week 7, the time of year when squads’ true characters are revealed, when the metaphorical face paint peels off and the metaphorical papier mache comes unstuck. In the thick of the Ivy League schedule, the contenders separate themselves from the pretenders, cute as they...
...Progressive, implies, Obey is one of the most liberal members of Congress. Elected at the tender age of 30, it's no surprise that he spends only 100 pages talking about his life before Congress and 300 pages on his time in office. Obey won his seat on April Fool's Day, 1969, with just 51.5% of the vote, in a special election to replace Republican Melvin Laird, who resigned to become Nixon's Secretary of Defense. He has since built a solid majority, winning reelection in 2006 with 62% of the vote...