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Lesley Gries and Caryn Curry combined for fully one-half of the Crimson tallies, but keeping track of individual totals was academic in the one-sided joust which saw UNH display an awesome ability to control the ball, in part due to the Crimson's lack of aggressive defense...
Will Congress ever get comfortable with economics? Despite their constitutional power over the nation's purse strings, the moguls on Capitol Hill have rarely been able to joust on an even footing with the White House when it came to arguing about the cost of specific programs or shaping the federal budget. When they tried-so they bitterly complained-they were almost always zapped by a barrage of expert-sounding figures prepared by professionals in the President's Office of Management and Budget. All that changed, or was supposed to, three years ago, when the legislators created their...
...doesn't ring at all. The exchanges are cliched, wooden, alternately boring and unconvincing. Kate's parents are conservative, blame Robert for their daughter's "condition," and seem paralyzed by shock and Puritan indignation. As such, they are stereotypes, merely providing a field for Robert and his father to joust upon...
...bank of computers tended by some frosty-eyed scientists in immaculate white smocks. Delos was dedicated to the fulfillment of adult fantasy: pay the hefty tab for a stay at the park and one could be a gunfighter in the Old West, say, or a knight preparing for a joust. The robots eventually rebelled, however, and hay wired the whole park...
...does. [MORE]'s subject is amorphous--all the more reason to be disappointed when they compartmentalize it, line it off in little boxes that defy comprehensiveness. [MORE]'s problem will always be that it is trudging along in the ranks of the Slick. Plumed cavaliers either joust each other or set up straw men, hollow men, graven images of themselves, to knock down. The magazine is covering a game of daggers sliding out of ruffled tuxedo sleeves, or a swift innuendo to the kidneys, or, at best, a Polaroid snapshot of stasis. They're all interesting, these conspiracies, but [MORE...