Word: gal
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...Kelly Greenberg. After 18 years in D.C., Pat Knapp left Georgetown to take the helm of the Quakers, and will have a solid, if lackluster, backcourt at his disposal. Junior Jennifer Fleischer was featured in the Nov. 11 issue of SI On Campus as a “glue gal,” or a player that does the little things to bind her team. She may be a “glue gal,” but at this point it’s hard to see what she’ll be holding together...
Desperate Housewives is the kind of show many TV execs believed wouldn't work on a network today. It's satiric. Unlike CSI, it has a complicated serial plot. (The guy-gal thing again; networks run scared from shows that ask for a commitment.) And it's a show with all-female stars that sets its drama on the home front, whereas Cold Case, Alias and Crossing Jordan star individual women in law-enforcement (read: guy-friendly) roles...
...Desperate Housewives is the kind of show many TV execs believed wouldn't work on a network today. It's satiric. Unlike CSI, it has a complicated serial plot. (The guy-gal thing again; networks run scared from shows that ask for a commitment.) And it's a show with all-female stars that sets its drama on the home front, whereas Cold Case, Alias and Crossing Jordan star individual women in law-enforcement (read: guy-friendly) roles...
...also bridging the generation gap between some grandparents and grandchildren. "My granddaughter left me a message one night complaining that I had so many more dates than she did," said a 73-year-old Floridian who goes by the name Classy Lady on JDate.com Dubbing herself "the hottest gal in Boca," she teased her granddaughter about her abundant suitors and her nights on the town...
...arrived at the aquariums, owing to the trauma of their capture, Monterey Bay Aquarium's scientists tried to make the transfer of their new arrival--accidentally snagged by a gill-net fisherman off the Southern California coast--as stress-free as possible. She was transported to a 4 million-gal. ocean pen, where she remained for 25 days, monitored by a team of marine biologists and released only after she began eating and appeared to have fully recovered. The strategy seems to have worked: on her first day in the tank, the shark snatched salmon fillets from a pole...