Word: mereness
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...this dilemma. UConn’s team may have won more consecutive games than any other women’s team, but is this the mark by which greatness is awarded? If UConn loses in this year’s championship game to a team who is riding a mere 11-game win streak, would they still be considered deserving of the trophy or the title “best team”? This scenario only scratches the surface of the collective dissonance held in sports by competing measures of worth...
...Specter survives the primary, he will face a stiffer test in November against former Congressman Patrick Toomey - the man whose candidacy drove Specter from the Republican Party. In 2004, Specter beat the far more conservative Toomey by a mere 17,000 votes of the million cast in the Republican primary - which is one reason Specter realized he couldn't win a rematch against him four years later in a primary that would be decided by a smaller, more conservative party base. After Specter's party switch, Toomey was down in the polls by 20 points against Specter in a general...
Kirkland House weighs in with a mere 14-second video clip. With T.I.’s “What You Know” playing in the background, red letters on a black background read, “There’s really only one thing you need to know about Kirkland House. The ‘Holiday Dinner and Dance’ is for Kirkland Residents only.” A last ditch effort to endorse Kirkland with the days counting down? Maybe the prospect of Incest Fest will be enough to excite incoming Kirklanders...
...Sunday afternoon in Hollywood, black limos will arrive one after another for the 82nd Academy Awards, their glamorous passengers spilling out into a rich and stunning celeb parade. It is so rich and stunning that mere mortals have to be corralled along a separate, parallel red carpet - and even these also-rans must be prodded along by security to avoid carpet gawkers...
...home in northern Thailand and hightailed it back, according to reports in the local press. After the Saudi government gave Thailand the tip about Kriangkrai, it didn't take long for Thai police to arrest him, but not before he allegedly sold some of the priceless jewels for a mere $30 an item. Soon after, three Saudi diplomats in Bangkok were shot execution-style in two different attacks on the same night. Two days after that, a Saudi businessman was kidnapped and never seen again. (See the top 10 crime stories...