Word: jacked
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...Iddo Goldberg). She has vague literary ambitions and is aware that hers is a job without a long future. And despite the high-class, clean-and-safe veneer, she has to call her agency on each date with a code phrase--"No problemo"--to confirm her client isn't Jack the Ripper...
...Given their difficult history of tangling over just about everything, hardly anyone would have expected Bob Dole to pick Jack Kemp as his running mate in 1996 - least of all Kemp. As little as three weeks before he was selected, recalls Dole's campaign manager, Scott Reed, Kemp was grumbling in GOP circles that he hadn't been given a speaking spot at the party's convention. So why did Dole pick him? "We were going for oxygen, heat and energy," Reed says. "We went through the traditional list, and we just weren't happy with what we were coming...
...ancient China, a pudgy young panda named Po (voiced by Jack Black) dreams of "legends full of legendary warriors whose exploits are the stuff of legends." In these Technicolor daydreams, even the legendary Furious Five are no match for a panda's bodacity. In real life, or as real as a cartoon fantasy gets, Po is a clumsy doofus, for whom rising from a supine position can take all morning. He has the doughy shape, the domineering amiability and, ultimately, the demented perseverance of an ursine Michael Moore. And Po's job is not to defeat mythical miscreants...
...took over already supported a flourishing arts community in which several important developments were underway. Harvard annually hosts some 450 musical performances and 40 to 55 theatrical productions, and between 2700 and 3000 undergraduates participated in Harvard’s art-making opportunities last year, according to OFA director Jack Megan...
...first Ivy title in three years. The foe standing in its way? Who else but 9-0 Yale—the then-No. 11 squad in the nation, which featured All-American and eventual Ivy League Player of the Year Mike McLeod and New England Coach of the Year Jack Siedlecki in addition to one of the most potent defenses in the league. The 124th edition of The Game, pegged as perhaps the best Game since the epic 29-29 tie in 1968, quickly turned sour for the outcoached Bulldogs, as the Crimson scored early and at will to break...