Word: golden
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Sure, with its elimination from the tournament, Harvard missed a golden opportunity to face a University of Connecticut squad that it had defeated earlier in the season, with the possibility of travelling to California for the quarterfinals looming for the victor. But given the expectations for the team at the season's outset, the success that followed was hardly anticipated...
Then with just under 10 minutes to play, the Crimson was awarded a direct kick from about 10 yards out of the box, giving it a golden opportunity. Stewart lined up and let fly a rocket toward the net, but once again the shot flew just high of its mark, going over the crossbar...
...come to worship this false god of youth just as wayward, ancient Hebrews once knelt at the hooves of a golden calf. But perhaps there's a lesson there as well. Once the world's darling, that golden calf later found herself a tarnished cow, reduced to flashing her sagging udders at circus sideshows. Over time, self-loathing made her lactose-intolerant, and she died too young from an overdose of prescription-strength Dairy Ease[TM]. How do I know this? I just watched the whole sad aftermath during teen-idols week on VH1's Where Are They...
...what I remember from the early '80s. Kids are kids wherever you go. They just need a little more protection these days--sometimes from themselves. I am glad to see that Webster Groves High is trying to be proactive without creating a police state within the school. STACY DURAN GOLDEN Valley Village, Calif...
...commitment, dedication and vision." Reich left the Cabinet in 1997, long after his decidedly liberal economics pitted him against moderate White House policy. "Reich's biggest frustration was that he felt that by focusing so single-mindedly on reducing the deficit, the Clinton administration missed a golden opportunity to invest in workers," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "And no one, except maybe [former treasury secretary Robert] Rubin exemplified that dedication to deficit reduction more than Gore did." In fact, adds Tumulty, Reich and the vice president have never been philosophically close. "They parted ways...