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...album, Hail to the Thief, Yorke finally reached the inevitable conclusion that the only original and obstreperous thing left was to stop trying so hard to be original and obstreperous. "Before we started this album, I was thinking, 'We're gonna have to make some huge sonic leap again, keep changing, keep ahead of the rest,'" Yorke says between bites of a vegan meal at Radiohead's west London rehearsal space. "And it did seem a bit silly to do it just for the sake of it, because that was never the point. It just took a while...
...offensive production was good but we had problems defensively,” Bookman said. “And that’s a sign of a young and inexperienced team. The leap from high school to Division I college volleyball is enormous. The game is much faster, so it is normal to expect those kinds of weaknesses to crop...
...It’s almost hard to think back to where we were when he arrived,” says Abrams Curator of Drawings William W. Robinson. “In every area, there’s been a tremendous leap in the level of activity and quality of programming, acquisitions and lectures...
...meters above sea level, this wore our patience as thin as the available oxygen. So he told us to shine our headlamps on the river, and in the halogen glare pointed out a perilous course across black rocks. I teetered giddily at the last boulder, making a leap for the bank and landing in supine embarrassment...
...leap from pet to companion has occurred not just in minds but in the legal system as well. A San Francisco city ordinance passed in January adds the word guardian to the designation of pet owner to acknowledge that pets are more than mere property, and a 2001 Oregon measure protects bequests left to dogs. You can forget leash laws; animal lovers are now lobbying their city councils for more dog parks. "This is part of a civil rights movement," says Alan Beck, professor of animal ecology and director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue University...