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...make much difference when Doron got hot in the second half. As Harvard packed the paint against Langhorne—holding her to just 12 points—things opened up on the outside for the Terrapins’ Second-Team All-ACC selection.“This, hands-down, is the toughest offensive team we’ve played,” Delaney-Smith said of the defending champions. “I’m pretty proud of how we played Langhorne, but you have to give up something to stop something else.”The thing...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Harvard Recruit Shines in Maryland Uniform | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...Well, frankly, it's hard to say any network is hands-down better or worse most election nights, given the sameness of most of their roundtable-talking-head-electoral-map setups. But we can hand out a few awards, anyway, with more to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Media Bias: Let Judge Mills Lane Decide! | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

...arts take years to master and are steeped in choreographed moves and ritualistic practices, none of which is likely to be much help against a mugger. The fundamentals of Krav Maga, on the other hand, can be learned in a matter of months. "I'm convinced Krav Maga is hands-down the best system going," says Detective Brian Arnspiger, defensive-tactics trainer of the Burbank police department. "It's saving lives and decreasing injuries to both officers and suspects by providing us with quick, simple ways of subduing suspects without having to resort to a weapon or excessive force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choke! Gouge! Smash! | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...author of a Prop 2 1/2-type tax amendment, came fron nowhere to snatch the Republican nomination from Milliken's hand-picked successor. And so, in the wake of his self-destruction, it is hardly with absolute confidence that Michigan's pundits have tapped Democratic candidate James Blanchard as the hands-down winner in today's election...

Author: By Thomas H. Howtell, | Title: Gaffee of the year | 11/2/1982 | See Source »

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