Word: neck
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...Scott made up almost the entire difference on the next lap. Renner, supplied with a replacement pole by a Canadian coach while in the transition area, held the position on her third-and-final lap, and Scott began the final loop a nose behind Finland's Virpi Kuitunen, neck-and-neck with Sweden's Lina Andersson. The race came down to the final stretch, when Andersson broke a stride clear of Scott to win the gold medal with Anna Dahlberg in 16 minutes 36.9 seconds. Scott, 31, and Renner, 29, finished 0.6 seconds behind for the silver. Finland...
...concerts and rarely gave media interviews. But a potentially lethal brain aneurysm last spring that required delicate surgery, followed by the death of his father, Canadian journalist and writer Scott Young, changed him. Or, perhaps more correctly, opened him up. With mortality grabbing him by the scruff of the neck (and his 60th birthday awaiting him in the fall), Young went into a Nashville studio last March to record Prairie Wind, which may be the most intimate of his 31 albums. Then he agreed to let director-producer Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia) film...
...Miller because he's a role model for young skiers with dreams - he's not! A professional athlete who admits having competed at the World Cup level while hung over can't be all that smart. In skiing, it takes a split second to fall and break your neck, and it's much easier for it to happen if you aren't completely sober. Enzo Concina Piacenza, Italy Republican Reform "Can This Elephant Be Cleaned Up?" reported on the influence-peddling scandal in Washington involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff and members of Congress [Jan. 23]. It's a sad point...
...items you wear to class? Do you give equal consideration to both?GT: It’s about equal, yes. THC: So then, do you incorporate the stereotypical American Ivy League Professor uniform into your wardrobe? The tweed blazer with the suede elbow pads, the oxford open at the neck, the ill-fitting brown corduroys? Do you embrace this archetype or do you rebel against it?GT: I don’t own any of the items you just said.THC: So you’re rebelling! I mean, do you feel like it’s a conscious effort, when...
...Down? Sideways, just to be artsy? There are so many grains! Seriously—a girl botches a shave and she nicks her leg. I slip up, and I’ve slit my jugular. So, ladies, if you see a man with a clean-shaven underjaw and neck, slap his ass and call him Sam Teller...