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Even if true, it was a desperate ploy, and one that garnered him little sympathy. But Foley was not the first disgraced public figure this year to resort to alcoholism as an excuse for bad behavior...
...68th minute of play. “I think that they whole game we had been playing good soccer and making them work and we really tired them out,” Stamatis said. “We had the legs at the end of the game. The ploy is to keep pressure and not let them have much breathing room.” Another sign of Harvard’s offensive dominance was the lopsided ratio of corner kicks—which the Crimson led Fairfield 14 to 5. Aside from the one blemish on his record, junior Adam...
...Korea's announcement that they would go ahead with a nuclear test. I hope this situation will not cause any problems to my current candidacy and I hope that member states of the United Nations will understand the situation. There are two possibilities: [that the tests are] a negotiating ploy, or a real attempt at nuclear testing. We are taking the necessary measures on both possibilities. I've already discussed this matter with [U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and in two hours I'm going to have...
...bring their cars in for a pit stop. But when a safety car rolled out in the 25th lap of last year's Monaco[an error occurred while processing this directive] Grand Prix, Team McLaren Mercedes made the counterintuitive decision to keep driver Kimi Raikkonen on the track. The ploy worked; Raikkonen won. But the decision wasn't made at trackside. It came from team leaders based at the McLaren Technology Centre in leafy Woking, south of London, who were using prediction software they've developed to help them make split-second tactical decisions in a sport where speed...
...might be gone, but that doesn’t mean hot coed action has left Currier House. In what is perhaps the creepiest recruiting ploy ever attempted, Lauren S. Herskovic, the collegiate editor at CO-ED Magazine, searched the Facebook for girls who “break the stereotype of unattractive women in Ivy League schools.” The chosen girls were then contacted via Facebook message with details on how they could win the honor (and the $1200 prize) of becoming Harvard’s next Miss University, a gateway to the national Miss CO-ED contest...