Word: momentous
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...sixth man award), and in the Olympics athletes are dubbed “most decorated” even if they have failed to win a gold medal. During the 2002 World Series the MLB unveiled their top 10 “most memorable moments” with the top moment going to Carl Ripken Jr. playing the most consecutive games of all time...
...Harvard women’s basketball team walked off the court Tuesday night, they knew that the rest of the year would be different. With the season over, weekends would no longer be dominated by traveling and back-to-back competitions, and practices would not consume every free moment of time. For assistant coach Kelly Finley, the end of the women’s season means something entirely different—it allows her to spend a lot more time with a little girl named Avigail...
...doesn't help Specter's case that he had been vowing not to switch parties practically right up until the moment that he did. Only weeks before, he had argued that it was vital that he stand as a 41st Republican vote in the Senate: "If there's a Democrat in my place, they'll be able to do anything they want...
...million museum, which opened Wednesday, is using to try to change the way people view the leprechaun. A character in Irish folklore dating back to the 8th century - a wily shoemaking sprite who enticed people with untold riches and then cunningly snatched them away at the last moment -the leprechaun was transformed by advertisers and Hollywood producers in the 1950s and '60s into something altogether different: a gaudy, top-hat-wearing, pipe-smoking creature with a trademark piercing cry of "Top o' the morning!" The leprechaun made popular by Lucky Charms commercials and movies and musicals like Darby O'Gill...
...Rahilly, a well-known Irish furniture designer, says he didn't set out with the goal of rehabilitating the image of the leprechaun. The idea for the museum simply came to him in a muggy, hungover moment of inspiration one morning in 2003. "I can't say it was a fairy visitation," he says with a chortle. "I was just drawn to them, or maybe they were drawn to me." With the Celtic Tiger economy booming at the time, he didn't have much difficulty finding investors to pony up the money to fund the venture. "Every pitch meeting would...