Word: rareness
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Nevertheless, the two goals proved to be enough because the Harvard defense kept the Big Red off-balance all night. Even on its power plays, Cornell struggled to possess the puck in the offensive zone. On those rare occasions when the Big Red did manage to keep the puck inside the Crimson blue line, few shots managed to find their way to the net, with Harvard defenders blocking 14 shots and 13 straying wide...
Cost of the world's most expensive dessert. Made of milk, cocoa, 5 g of 24-karat gold, gold-flecked whipped cream and shavings from a rare chocolate truffle, it's available at New York City's Serendipity 3, which has yet to sell...
...variety of styles—dance, rock, punk—that one wonders if they aren’t a rotating radio dial filtered through a rock group. More importantly, Travis Morrison’s lyrics are smart but not wise. He describes social, romantic, and suburban anxiety with rare precision, but he never knows how to feel better. The band is perfect for kids who know their clothes don’t fit but don’t know where else to shop, kids who have an inkling that “Fight Club” stinks but don?...
...quite. Mike Newell’s “Love in the Time of Cholera,” although beautifully filmed and well acted by the leads, fails inexcusably with its script. The magic of García Márquez, evident in these first scenes, makes only rare appearances throughout the rest of the film.“Love in the Time of Cholera” begins in 1880 with fervent first-sight love. The young Florentino Ariza, played by Javier Bardem (“The Sea Inside”), comes across the beautiful Fermina Daza, played by popular...
...then there is the question of proving original ownership. Sometimes a group can show it has been on a given tract of land since records began. But this situation is rare. Often a claim is just that, a mere assertion unbacked by documents of any kind, made by Aborigines who live in an entirely different area. This infuriates some Australian graziers, especially those whose stations (ranches) are on land they do not own outright but hold in lease from the Crown. A native title claim on their land, even a weak one, can freeze their assets and put bank loans...