Word: sacs
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...Supine on a love seat in his home at the end of a leafy cul-de-sac in Brentwood, Calif., Downey attempts to explain his improbable comeback. Like many of his stories, this one meanders poetically and involves, oh, several hundred kung-fu metaphors. "I've just been at the ready, and when the opening was there, I hit it," Downey says. "Guard your centerline, watch the lead elbow, look for an opening, make contact, exchange, advance or retreat and stay connected." He's fit, mellow and reflective after a morning of power-flow yoga with his teacher Vinnie Marino...
...walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth to send Yale to a dramatic 7-6 victory. Nutter had bailed fellow freshman Zach Hofeld out of a two-out, two-on jam in the bottom of the eighth inning after Hofeld had allowed a sac fly and a Jake Doyle RBI single to cut the lead to two. But Nutter soon found himself in hot water in the next inning, allowing an RBI single to Josh Cox (3-for-5) before Gorynski’s walk-off blast. “There’s definitely a lack...
Newer home shows are starting to tap into the anxiety sweeping America's culs-de-sac. HGTV's upcoming Good Buy, Bad Buy? starkly puts the worries of buyers about overpaying in a falling market: "Buying a house is the biggest financial risk you will ever take." (Of course, this being HGTV--whose viewers are mostly homeowners and whose advertisers cater to them--you don't see anyone deciding to simply sit out the market and rent...
...under a blurry panorama centered on Lowell House, where Chadbourne lived as an undergraduate, and was accompanied by a paragraph detailing Chadbourne’s involvement in student government. While at Harvard, Chadbourne was a UC representative for three terms and served as chair of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) in 2005. Chadbourne said that his decision to name the now-defunct award for himself was not motivated by self-promotion, as some have suggested over the past few days. “I just wanted to put my name behind it,” Chadbourne said. Chadbourne said...
...final say on the makeup of the committee, and the UC’s selections do not guarantee that he will accept the Council’s choices.“He is not bound in any way to the students we select,” Student Affairs Committee (SAC) Chair Jon T. Staff V ’10 said.In an e-mail, Smith wrote, “I expect to review suggestions from the UC and from others, and then select an appropriately diverse group of students.”UC members have been calling for applicants over House...