Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last five years, three teams have dominated the Ivy League: Pennsylvania, Princeton and Dartmouth. The Quakers, Tigers and Big Green have consistently recruited the best players, leaving the rest of the conference scrambling to keep pace...
...last five years, three teams have dominated the Ivy League: Pennsylvania, Princeton and Dartmouth. The Quakers, Tigers and Big Green have consistently recruited the best players, leaving the rest of the conference scrambling to keep pace...
...bombing turned to weeks without an arrest, defense counsel Jack Martin led reporters on a hike from the place where Jewell showed officials the bomb to the pay phone from which a warning call was placed a minute and a half later. The brisk walk, presumably faster than the pace Jewell could have sustained through Olympic crowds, took four minutes. Then last week the defense introduced former FBI polygraph expert Richard D. Rackleff, who said he had tested Jewell and judged him "totally innocent." (Jewell refused an FBI polygraph.) Finally the lawyers hit the interview shows, demanding that since...
...which a federal law-enforcement official in Georgia responded, "Why would the bureau want to apologize to someone it's investigating?" Another in Washington added that the inquiry's pace "isn't that unusual. It [just] seems like it's been drawn out because it's so excruciatingly public." The bureau has referred to "other suspects" in the bombing, but some of them, say Washington officials, have a Jewell connection. Bomb components being reconstructed by the feds may someday lead elsewhere. But meanwhile, Jewell and his distraught mother (who was planning her own press conference) "have no semblance...
...difficult to resist comparison with the book, it's also a challenge not to remember another recent attempt at putting "Emma" on the big screen: "Clueless," resplendent with Beverly Hills bird-brains. Some logic might dictate that "Clueless" changes the locale and pace of the novel so radically--Emma would say "Whatever" only if followed by a four-line sentence sprinkled with semi-colons--that it couldn't possibly be a more loyal version. But where "Clueless" successfully looked to a new world ripe for the axing, McGrath's "Emma" creates an uncomfortable mix by updating an old world with...