Word: necks
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...from several outstanding individual performances—chiefly from Stehle, who tied a career high with 27 points and added 12 rebounds. Goffredo finished with 20 points. Beal had 10 points, 10 rebounds, and four assists.Cornell’s win was made even more emotional because of the neck injury that sophomore Khaliq Gant suffered in practice on Tuesday, Jan. 24. The Big Red has now won both games played since the injury to Gant, who is being treated at Atlanta’s Shepard Spinal Clinic.“The past two weeks have been pretty unbelievable...
...Internet 2.0 will be in the U.S. just as its predecessor was 10 years ago. (The real stars at Davos this year were not Pitt and his friends but Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, whose every appearance at parties was greeted by the sort of frenzied neck craning that last year was reserved for Sharon Stone.) U.S. multinational companies continue to dominate global business, just as U.S. universities would dominate any list of the best in the world. But while we were in the Swiss mountains, Hamas won a landslide - and thoroughly unpredicted - victory in the Palestinian elections...
...view, the haunting Snake Charmer (1907), a woman's nude figure in dark silhouette stands by a river against an unearthly sunset - or is it moonrise? Flowers and grasses glow with an inner light. Her face is partly hidden by her flute and by the snake draped round her neck - we see only the pale glint of the whites of her eyes. Rousseau said that when he visited Paris' Botanic Gardens he felt transported: "When I am in the greenhouses and see the strange plants from exotic countries, it is as though I am experiencing a dream." His words ring...
...entrust managers with their investment solely to maximize long-term returns, not so those managers can use the proceeds to underwrite their urge to better the world. It is unclear how many of America's CEOs silently sympathize with Rodgers' views. But a large and rapidly growing number are neck deep in CSR initiatives, spending billions, tackling everything from AIDS in Africa to deforestation in Brazil. If anyone doubted that CSR has finally come of age in the U.S., they were probably set straight in October when Wal-Mart, the world's leading corporate bad guy in the eyes...
...McAlhany says he tried to see what was happening just in case he needed to take evasive action. "I wanted to make sure if anything was coming toward me and they were killing passengers I would have a chance to break somebody's neck," he says. "I was looking through the seats because I wanted to see what was coming...