Word: judo
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...Which, in the end, is actually a good thing. As scary as it seems to conceive of admission decisions hinging on an officer's personal politics or mood, there is something comforting about the randomness of it all. It makes signing up one's third grader for violin, judo and Boy Scouts suddenly seem senseless. Or hiring a $20,000 college consultant to help package your child. Or doing anything other than relaxing and letting your child pursue what he or she actually wants to do - even if that means going off to join the circus...
...heart attack gathering resumes and making tentative feelers and offers so Bush is never turned down. "Cheney doesn't decide," explained an aide, "but he does tee up the choices." Giving Cheney the job of sifting through the names may turn out to be a nifty bit of Bush judo: if the party's base doesn't like the outcome, Bush may be figuring, they can take it up with the Veep, who is the most conservative guy on Bush's team, at the moment anyway. Bush has told intimates that each Cabinet post is a riddle in miniature...
...campus cop has just left. Professor of English Murray Sperber sits in his office at Indiana University, mulling the advice on how to protect himself from hotheads. Sperber, 60, figures he had better take two self-defense courses recommended by the cop, including "Verbal Judo," which is designed to help de-escalate potential violence. When he returns to teaching in January, after sitting out a semester to avoid having his teeth knocked out, his name will not appear on course listings. For his own protection, he'll be Professor Incognito...
...jewel of Lake Minnetonka"), made it onto the map when it vowed to take back the night - or, rather, to take back afternoons and vacation days from the ever-tightening grip of extracurricular activities. A group of Wayzata parents calling themselves "Family Life 1st" began asking Judo instructors, cello teachers and their ilk to cut back on practices and shift their schedules so as not to conflict with family meals and vacations. At a time when the hot Christmas gift for the under-10 set is a candy-colored personal digital assistant, it was a well-understood and much-applauded...
...Dream, which was unlike any official coverage seen before. The two wry hosts, Roy Slaven and H.G. Nelson, delighted in running wrestling footage accompanied by Barry White love songs while speculating on why large men would grope and mount each other from behind. The two took jabs at fat judo contestants and openly mocked the New Zealand medal tally (four as of Saturday night). The public lapped it up. After barely a week on the air, the show's mascot, Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat, was so popular the I.O.C. requested that athletes stop posing with...