Word: rivalling
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...Michael Clayton, Roberts shares star billing with Clive Owen, but it's not a Julia Roberts Movie. The film is a nimble, witty whirligig of a caper, and it's no criticism to say Paul Giamatti, playing an insecure loon of a CEO, and Tom Wilkinson, as his devious rival, snatch the spotlight from the pretty people every chance they get. So does the timeline, which bounces around far more than Roberts' glossy tresses. The role of Claire Stenwick, a former CIA operative now playing the espionage game in the highly competitive world of soap companies, includes ample opportunity...
Some people suggest that Iraq's various rival factions are just lying low, waiting for the Americans to depart before renewing their armed struggles against one another. There has long been rivalry among Shi'ite parties for supremacy within their community as well as a parallel intra-Sunni battle. Elections are now playing a role in this political drama. January's provincial polls, for example, dealt a devastating blow to religious and federalist-minded parties like the Shi'ite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. They were firmly repudiated in favor of secular, nationalist groups. But will this resurgent nationalism carry through...
...have been St. Patrick’s Day, but the Harvard men’s volleyball team (8-6, 3-1 EIVA Hay Division) would need no luck to beat the Engineers of MIT (22-11). With a raucous crowd cheering on the Crimson, Harvard swept its cross-town rival 3-0 (30-23, 30-17, 30-26), giving the team its fifth win in the last six games...
...left Harvard with a bittersweet victory.“We didn’t have enough intensity, and [we] played down to the level of our opponent,” Martin said.The Crimson cannot afford do the same at 1 p.m. Saturday, when it takes on nationally-ranked crosstown rival Boston University at Nickerson Field.—Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu...
...implement,” she said. Goodman’s departure marks one of the rare instances of tenured professors leaving the Law School in recent years—the hiring frenzy in the past five years has seen Harvard poach more than a few distinguished legal scholars from rival institutions, including NYU. But NYU has also embarked upon an ambitious faculty recruitment campaign, hiring almost 20 full professors away from other law schools since 2004. Several professors at the Law School said that Goodman chose to relocate largely because of his and his family’s preference...