Word: foul
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...games, Baseball Prospectus, the noted statistical Web site, rated New York’s chances of missing the playoffs at 500-1. On Sunday, the Mets hit the infamous jackpot.” I read that on ESPN right before leaving for Central Square. So I was in a foul mood when I got there, and it wasn’t getting any better when I saw a Phillies hat walk through the door. Watching your team implode is a heartbreak that you have to experience to believe. Boston knows this, the Mets know this, and, perhaps most famously...
...effective has Hu been at recalibrating China's policies? The country's problems are immense, and if all you did was taste its foul air or look at the huddled masses who have been left out of the boom, it would be easy to conclude that Hu's job had hardly started. In his first years in office, it was often said that Hu was unable to get his vision adopted by powerful provincial leaders. But the old judgment that he is a weak leader may be changing. Li notes that the President has spent the past five years ensuring...
...those folks who goes out of his way to say that the Holocaust was history’s worst crime against humanity, but I had to cry foul. “Wait a second,” I replied. “The Japanese did some terrible things, but they didn’t systematically kill millions of Koreans. You can say things were better or worse, or whatever, but not that it was the same thing...
...Still, if more feedlots like Western Cattle's crop up around the country, communities can expect to deal with a new set of problems. Disease outbreaks in concentrated animal populations can be devastating. Even if the cows and their meat are well monitored and safe, feedlots foul the air and can be a source of water pollution. Growing the massive amount of corn needed to feed herds also means fertilizer and pesticide runoff in water supplies, and trucking feed and meat around the country is a big carbon emitter. Wen Bo, China program director with the NGO Pacific Environment, acknowledges...
...where NBA hype starts in middle school and teenagers are drawn away from the amateur game by the allure of multimillion shoe deals and signing bonuses.To Vaccaro, the claims of his critics are representative of the hypocrisy of “the system,” which cries foul over the degradation of amateurism while treating its athletes as a supply of indentured labor.In his speech, he criticized the mass marketing of college athletes (billboards of Heisman trophy candidates, memorabilia being sold) without any compensation for the athletes themselves. He challenged the myth of the student athlete, blasting a culture...