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...singularly impressive capacity for technically demanding passages of showmanship. She possesses a precision and command over every subtle fluctuation and movement of her voice that is paralleled by none. At points, Bartoli’s voice would soar in an ethereal airiness that seemed to originate from the height of her temples or the upper reaches of the back of her skull...
...that changed, of course, when Hafner came to Cambridge and Sifers headed north. That became even clearer in the first period of Harvard’s visit to Vermont last season, when Hafner—with a six-inch height advantage—caught Sifers with his shoulder, opening a cut on his friend’s chin...
Standing at 5’2, Moore hasn’t let her height get in the way of playing Division I basketball, so when she injured her ankle in December, she wasn’t about to let that stop her either...
...crept into the vocabulary and lifestyle of some of England's Premier League footballers. The case of Wayne Carey - the great Australian Rules player who in 2002 was revealed to have been sleeping with the wife of his North Melbourne vice-captain - lingers in the memory. At the height of that scandal Carey's distraught wife, Sally, told the player's manager: "You're to blame for this. You're to blame, the club's to blame, I'm to blame. We let him think he could get away with anything...
...parliament and the possibility that conservatives will win the presidency in 2005. It's a prospect that fills Khamenei's allies with glee. "A quarter of a century after the triumph of the Islamic revolution," boasts Mohammed Kazem Anbarlui, editor of the conservative daily Resalat, "we are at the height of power...