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SC: Here's a Hollywood rule of thumb--when you have more than two screenwriters, the movie will either be a) incoherent b) choppy or c) spotty. Sometimes, in particularly lame cases, the movie will be incoherent, choppy and spotty. Like Runaway Bride. Not only wasn't it as good...
Whether out of genuine green-heartedness or just good p.r. instincts, Ford is putting its foot on the environmental accelerator. The world's second largest car company announced Monday it would one-up governmental regulations and voluntarily reduce light-truck and SUV emissions beyond what President Clinton and the EPA...
"Some children get into a pattern of turning every request into a debate...Instead of trying to one-up the child with a better argument, the parent simply walks away." (Wimpy Parents: From Toddler to Teen--How NOT to Raise a Brat)
For the most part, Harvard did what was expected. If, however, the Crimson is to one-up its history-making performance of a year ago, when the team won 34 games and knocked off two nationally-ranked opponents in Miami and UCLA, what is expected may not be good enough...
The Globe also printed speculation that Jiang wanted to visit Harvard to one-up Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui, who visited his alma mater, Cornell University, in 1995.