Word: nods
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...City may be the capital of drive-through weddings, but traffic on the Strip can be a drag. So in a nod to impatient (and fit) couples, the New Las Vegas Marathon, on Dec.4, will include a Run-Thru Chapel near the five-mile mark, where at least 22 couples plan to get married en masse. Running with them will be the minister, lots of Elvis impersonators--like these recent marathoners in Phoenix, Ariz., right--and an estimated 13,000 others tackling a 26.2-mile course that includes the entire Strip, closed off to cars. While élite runners...
...passing touchdowns and one rushing, over 60 yards of nimble scrambling, and leadership of a fourth-quarter comeback gave the Crimson hope of life after the graduation 2005 Ivy Player of the Year and NFL draft choice Ryan Fitzpatrick.Rough day for: Irvin, the transfer from Tulane who earned the nod to start, who had his sixth pass attempt of the day intercepted and returned for a 42-yard score by Holy Cross’s Casey Gough. O’Hagan went in and never left.Top performers: Harvard—O’Hagan...
...challenge for the rest of the league will be to contain Altchek, while he will have to work as a senior to not let the added pressure keep him from scoring. Altchek was also named to the First Team All-Ivy squad, while senior forward Nicholas Tornaritis earned a nod to the Second Team and captain and defender Will Craig earned an honorable mention. The Crimson finished its season 6-8-2, with a 2-4-1 record and fifth-place finish in the Ivies. Dartmouth, Yale and Brown all tied for the top spot in the league...
...great ideas, some of which could change the way people live their lives." So, which inventions in the past five years does the man known as Woz think fill that bill? "The TiVo," he says, "digital cameras, some of the advances in nanotech." And he adds, with a nod to his technological pedigree, "The iPod would qualify as one of those...
...gotta do.” Charles takes this maxim to heart as he heroically attempts to avenge Winston’s murder and to reclaim his family’s honor and his money in pursuing Laroche (complete with dramatic soundtrack, slow motion shoot-out scenes and the nod of the saintly Giancarlo Esposito). Thereby, “Derailed” proves that cheating is really bad, but taking law and order into one’s own hands is just fine, as long as you are guided by The RZA. —Staff writer...