Word: particularity
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Palin hit back in her signature style. "Jerks," she said of her veiled foes. It was in keeping with the particular brand of brass that makes her, rawness aside, a plausible--perhaps formidable--future candidate. If any politician can survive the spectacle of sorting through her family's suitcases to determine which duds are legally hers (the rest are being returned to the GOP; imagine the bewildered staffer opening that package), it's Sarah...
...group were allowed to continue taking their vitamin D supplements for bone health (some were taking up to 600 IUs per day), which could explain why there was little difference between the two groups in breast-cancer rates. "This is a potential problem that confounds the results of this particular trial," says Dr. Powel Brown, a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and author of an editorial accompanying the study. "But it's not really ethical to tell postmenopausal women not to take vitamin D or calcium, because we know it protects against hip fractures." Future studies...
...with a minor injury to fellow freshman forward Peter Boehm, Amaker will need to fill some holes in this class. “We don’t have them all healthy, a couple of the freshmen kids are out—Boehm and Van Nest, those two in particular,” Amaker said. “[But] the others have done fairly well. They certainly have made their presence felt in a very positive way with their ability.” Injuries have been the theme for the Crimson so far this preseason. Junior Pat Magnarelli is coming...
Along with engineering Republican victories, Karl Rove likes to collect unusual stamps. So when a particular letter arrived at Caleb’s house last June, his father immediately separated it from the other mail. “I said, ‘I think this is from Karl Rove,’ and [Caleb’s mother] and I looked at each other and wondered ,” Steve C. Weatherl told me. Caleb had arranged for the Republican Club to bring Karl Rove to campus that April. The high-profile speaking event had gone very smoothly...
...Chiappini got a quart of Ben & Jerry’s and sobbed himself to sleep in the shower after dog racing was banned; our cyber-column was censored for several hours; and we began to feel the fallout from allegedly alleging a certain group of girls suffer from a particular health risk. [1] All this leaves us feeling ready to dish out some more advice—so gentlemen, open your Trapper Keepers (and ladies, your Lisa Frank folders) and start taking notes...