Word: nods
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...again, the bullpen failed to stem the bleeding, yielding seven hits, four walks, and five runs for the rest of the game. Harvard saved the worst for Sunday’s 17-6 rout. Veteran right-hander Javier Castellanos, a senior, was alternately hittable and wild after earning the nod, and the bullpen turned in a nightmare line of ten runs, ten hits, and five walks in a little more than four innings. And that included two-and-a-third scoreless innings from captain Morgan Brown, who completed the team’s only scoreless appearance of the weekend...
Clinton remains, by a large margin, the candidate both Democrats and left-leaning independents prefer to win the party's nod in 2008. But she is also the candidate who many believe cannot win in 2008, because she is simply too divisive a figure. Which means she is the party's best and worst prospect...
...meetings with Iraqi leaders an urgent, compelling talking point: the prospect of civil war. But a day spent with the ambassador as he shuttles across Baghdad reveals just how hard it will be for him to forge compromise. At his meeting with al-Hakim, the SCIRI leader's aides nod when Khalilzad says the political deadlock is creating a vacuum that encourages sectarian impulses. But al-Hakim wants to talk instead about the discovery last week of a bus containing the corpses of 18 men, many of them clearly garroted. News reports said the men were Sunnis; al-Hakim says...
...culture” allows Nas to decry “a rhymebiter’s rthyme” on his debut album Illmatic, while still drawing lyrical nourishment from idols like Rakim. Whether Vanilla Ice or Black Eyed Peas, pop outsiders who appropriate rap forms without a nod to their numerous predecessors are ostracized. Though these sequential links are vital, slicing the intricate mesh of hip-hop’s connections into easy “lineages” of progressive influence and success, as a conventional exhibition format is likely to do, is antithetical to the genre?...
Gere was also ordered to demonstrate his prowess as a knight, a nod to his film “First Knight,” by “slaying the heart” of a large dragon, played by a cast member...