Word: lames
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...next president should make the appointment instead of Summers.“There is a substantial number of people who are worried,” Lorsch said.Lorsch added that Summers’ dean appointment may not have legitimacy, as the outgoing president is a “lame duck.”But Shad Professor of Business Ethics Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. wrote in an e-mail that Summers is in a position to make a well-informed decision.“For what it’s worth, I haven’t heard anyone say a delay makes...
...done something unprecedented: he made a movie-tie-in music video that doesn’t suck. Every other rapper who decides to promote a movie with a video seems to believe that “thou shalt splice together a lame performance scene with random clips from thy film” is the lost eleventh commandment, but not the King of the South...
...Cheney have barely over 1,000 days left and things they want to get done. But to succeed, they need to resist as long as possible the forces that make Administrations irrelevant. "Some people in the White House are worried that this will hasten the start of the formal lame-duck period, which they were hoping to put off until after the midterm elections," said a Republican official. "This showed a weakened President and a Vice President in a bubble within a bubble." The minute the November midterms are over, attention will turn even faster than usual...
...present and the past, of the mundane and the macabre, that is Delhi's special delight for art and history buffs. On the terrace of an abandoned 14th century madrasah in the neighborhood of Hauz Khas, you can stand on the stone steps where Mongol conqueror Timur the Lame walked in 1398, admiring the city whose inhabitants he had butchered (his contribution to Delhi's architecture-pyramids of skulls-has thankfully been lost). Sitting in Haldiram's, a vegetarian eatery in old Delhi, you can admire the Sunehri mosque, whose roof Nadir Shah, a king of Persia who had invaded...
...preparation started exactly three years ago this past Wednesday. The most recent “best chance” had stumbled out of the gate, dropping four difficult Ivy road contests, and faced the prospect of eight lame duck games and a lengthy rebuilding process. The five seniors that had consistently logged 30-plus minutes a game would be moving on, leaving a vacuum of talent and experience that would take years to refill. Harvard coach Frank Sullivan looked at the strong freshman class and knew that would be his next shot. The next year would be painful. The following...