Word: sagas
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Anyone who has seen the cinematic masterpiece, “Ace Ventura, Pet Detective,” will agree that if Dan Marino had simply followed the crucial advice of “laces out!” during his football game, the two-hour-long saga would not have ensued. I may not be intimately associated with all the particular details of your dilemmas, but I will hopefully be able to give “laces out” on-the-ball advice...
...would lead to the one big black mark of the 20th Winter Games: a spiraling doping drama featuring a suicidal Austrian coach, a crusading Italian magistrate and an unprecedented nighttime police raid - all of which could change the way that future Olympics fight the war against banned substances. The saga began to unfold just before 5 p.m. when Mario Pescante, Italy's official representative to the Winter Games, arrived at the office of Carabinieri Colonel Angelo Agovino carrying a slim file and a photograph of a stout 48-year-old named Walter Mayer. The Austrian cross-country and biathlon team...
This section dynamic is analogous to the ongoing saga of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and University President Lawrence H. Summers, and what appears to be its approaching denouement...
Part family saga, part spy thriller, “Silent Lies” has an old-fashioned feel...
...tarnish all Republicans and even hand the House to the Democrats. "They're worried about the Congress," an adviser said after talking to White House aides, "and they're worried about themselves." Although DeLay's forfeiture of his leadership post makes things easier for the White House, the Abramoff saga will continue to be a problem. Bracing for the worst, Administration officials obtained from the Secret Service a list of all the times Abramoff entered the White House complex, and they scrambled to determine the reason for each visit. Bush aides are also trying to identify all the photos that...