Word: overlook
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...League has become a passing league so quickly that it's easy to forget the importance of a decent running game. And in light of the beating the Harvard defense conferred on Columbia on Saturday, it's easy to overlook the fact that Nick Palazzo rushed for 108 yards in the same game...
...would like to be the next President are so different in their management styles that it's easy to overlook their similarities. But there are some. Both Gore and Bush have earned reputations as decisive leaders--more decisive, in each case, than the men whose presidencies they've watched up close. Bill Clinton's penchant for agonizing over every decision--and then rethinking it again after it was made--only reinforced the Vice President's natural aversion to second-guessing. A President Gore would be a decided contrast to the candidate who reinvents his campaign as often as he changes...
That leaves the future of the conference's likely two second-place teams in doubt. Does the committee take both Harvard and Brown? If the committee decides there is room for only one of them, it would be tough to overlook the Bears' 2-0 defeat against Harvard earlier this season...
Heading back towards the hotel, we stopped at the massive Kim Il Sung monument, a grotesque statue of the late Great Leader flanked by enormous friezes of workers surging behind the Red Flag. Across the street was an overlook above a park. Groups of people sat with children while others wandered in and out of the play areas. Beneath the stairs there appeared to be some kind of workshop where men were hammering the pieces of a large machine - perhaps of the escalator for the nearby subway entrance. The people in the park were variously hostile, curious and friendly...
...player that the Crimson cannot overlook on defense, however, is Big Green senior forward Jessica Post. Currently the sixth-leading scorer in school history, Post contributed two goals and an assist in Dartmouth's 4-2 win over UConn last week...