Word: pickings
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Seconds before the Montreal Canadiens made their first-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, the television cameras cut to Louis Leblanc. Leblanc, an incoming Harvard freshman and highly-rated NHL prospect, looked around Montreal’s Bell Centre in silent anticipation. The Kirkland, Que. native would soon learn whether his hometown team would be selecting him with the 18th pick overall...
...terms of preparing for the NHL, Leblanc pretty much had his pick of the litter. He could have played amateur hockey or at any school in the nation, including Boston University and Boston College, the past two NCAA Champions. But Leblanc chose Harvard with the goal of finding a balance between hockey and education...
...Many Arabic news media covered the story only sporadically or failed to pick up on it until days after the riots began, and opinion writers - who were especially prolific in defense of the headscarf martyr - had very little to say about the Muslims in China. An article over the weekend in Saudi Arabia's Arab Times likened the struggle of their Uighur "co-religionists" to that of the Palestinians and compared the Han Chinese to the Jews; and an editorial in Egypt's state-run Al-Ahram newspaper last week urged the international community to pay more attention...
...What do we know about her relationship with her daughters' clothing? Does she pick out what they wear? This is conjecture, because no one's really talking, but evidently she really gives them a lot of freedom in terms of what they want to wear. I think when you see them going to and from school, they really look like their own little people. Certainly for the Inauguration, the team that put Michelle together, and I do believe it was Ikram Goldman who did both the day and night Inauguration outfits, also dressed the girls. And they were...
Sometime in the near future, then, the U.S. will have to start living within its means - or at least a lot closer to them than it currently does. To keep this new American frugality from battering the global economy even more than it's been battered, somebody has to pick up the resulting slack in demand. Europe and Japan have been hit harder by the downturn than the U.S. has, and they have aging, slow-growing populations unlikely to ignite consumer booms. That leaves the BICs as pretty much the only remaining candidates. These economies are still too small...