Word: homely
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...Lady Crimson played two rounds of golf on Saturday, and with the second day of competition being cancelled on Sunday due to early morning rain and a wet afternoon forecast, Harvard’s first-day efforts were good enough to bring the team trophy home to Cambridge, repeating the team’s finish from a year...
...third-year golfer from Alameda, California did not need to make many adjustments after pacing the Crimson with a five-over par 76 in the first round of competition. But Kabasakalis did indeed improve in her second tour of the Elis’ home course, shooting a team-best two-over par 73 to finish up Saturday’s play...
...Ford Field to Lourdes. "Wounds were washed clean. Souls were healed. Fans and players, some near tears, thanked each other for enduring," wrote Mitch Albom on the Free Press's website. "It was as if some mystical prison doors had been sprung, and everyone was getting to go home." Ultimately, the Lions may prove to be something for this beleaguered region to believe...
...Over the past 21 months, the Lions' persistent losses caused many to hang their heads in shame at the mention of the team's name - or simply stop paying attention. Tickets to Lions' home games, at the 65,000-seat Ford Field in downtown Detroit, are practically given away. The roughly 40,800 people who showed up on Sept. 27 comprised one of the smallest crowds ever to watch a football game there - and reportedly one of the thinnest to attend a Lions home game in 20 years. The game wasn't even televised here: the NFL blocks local television...
...with the Commonwealth Games just a year away, the city's bad manners have upset a personage no less than the country's Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, who said on Sept. 22 that Delhiites needed an "attitude makeover" in order to "play good hosts" in 2010. Delhi's Chief Minister, Shiela Dixit, readily agreed and said plans are afoot to teach Delhi folks to be "more caring and sharing." She indicated that a Beijing-style program of civic education, like the one rolled out before last year's Olympics, would be launched soon. It's only the third time...