Word: mismatch
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...added five or 10 pounds of muscle during the offseason,” Breaux says of Luft. “He’s going to be a mismatch for any corner in the league...
Easily the mismatch of the week. The Bulldogs, the Ivies’ preseason favorite, have the best running back in the league in Mike McLeod and the Hoyas surrendered a stunning 349 yards on the ground in a loss to Stony Brook. The overrated Elis will storm Washington like the Brits in 1812 and live another week without being exposed...
...terror," "the axis of evil," wanton talk of crusades and evildoers and an ill-conceived war with Iraq. Furthermore, the President's speech was based on a simplistic vision of America's role in the world, one firmly rooted in American infallibility. And finally, there was a fundamental mismatch between the grandness of Bush's oratory and his unwillingness to summon the nation to an actual war footing, in which real sacrifice was required. "I think the American people are sacrificing now," the President said. "I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before...
...Richard Bonnie, chairman of the Supreme Court of Virginia's Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, told TIME that the mismatch between state and federal law is simply an oversight that should be rectified. "I don't think people have given much advanced thought to this. Outpatient commitment is very rare event," Bonnie said. "The usual case, what was most in mind for the authors of the federal rules, was the cases where you see severe enough mental illness to be committed to the hospital. This was simply overlooked...
...BROWN 10, HARVARD 1 Facing Brown for the fourth time this season, Harvard still had no answers for the Bears’ attack. One of the greatest obstacles that Brown has posed this season for the Crimson has been its quick transition game. Yesterday, the Bears exploited the speed mismatch yet again on its way to earning an automatic bid to the Northern Championships. Two-meter Devon MacLaughlin played a strong game and led the team with three ejections. The resulting 6-on-5 situations should have given Harvard a greater opportunity to score. Instead, Brown scored counter-attack goals...