Word: olympian
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Brewer's defense allowed Brown to attack the Harvard goal with a former Olympian of its own, sophomore defenseman Tara Mounsey. Mounsey had two assists and showed that, as talented as the Crimson is this season, there are other teams to be reckoned with in the ECAC...
Among the outstanding Harvard athletes to be recognized are track Olympian Meredith L. Rainey '90 and Allison S. Feaster '98, a first round draft pick in the Women's National Basketball Association...
Even under those rules, House committee hearings could easily turn into peep-show-style government, a prospect that worries judiciary chairman Henry Hyde. As the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill proceedings showed, it's hard to play the role of Olympian legislators while you're asking questions about pubic hair. When Congress is reduced to picking through salacious details, says Arizona Senator John McCain, a Republican, "we're all tarred with the same brush...
...survivalism were an Olympic sport, Eric Robert Rudolph could have won gold in Atlanta. Instead, he's wanted for questioning over the bombing of the 1996 summer games, and has been named as a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic attack. But Rudolph's Olympian survivalist skills have allowed him to elude federal agents for almost six months while never venturing far from his home county...
...modeled on Quake and Tomb Raider. Battle-strategy games behave like Warcraft. Flight simulators tend to resemble Microsoft's. To be sure, this year's new games are faster, smoother and compatible with accelerator cards that deliver superior 3-D effects. They also tend to require Olympian amounts of RAM. SimCity 3000, will need a minimum of 32 MB, though the payoff is splendidly rendered, 3-D, skyscraper-bejeweled cities that one can zoom in on, right down to the level of joggers on the sidewalks, and redesign like God or even Mayor Rudy Giuliani...