Word: setups
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...five or six years,” Brand said. “Especially with Penn State, the depth of their roster was something I have not seen in quite a long time. In each weapon, in each event, they had literally a world-class fencer.”The setup of the tournament also made things difficult: fencers face others in five-touch bouts in round-robin play and then compete in a final four. There was no way for Hagamen to run away with the title: he was going to have to work for it.But Hagamen...
...smell a setup - the old governmental double-cross - don't bother congratulating yourself. We're only halfway through Act 1 of Shooter, the latest movie in the conspiracy-theory genre. Filmmakers have spun some pretty decent political nightmares out of the fear of another Lincoln, McKinley or Kennedy assassination. The Manchurian Candidate, of blessed memory, established the format; The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Winter Kills, JFK, Conspiracy Theory and last year's BBC fake-umentary Death of a President all ran cunning variations on it. Shooter, written by Jonathan Lemkin from Stephen Hunter's novel Point...
...tools that will allow the community to quarantine edits from people we don't know. No one in the Wikipedia community would write that Sinbad is dead [as happened on March 15] and leave it up there. That would be a bannable offense-no question. But in the current setup, it can slip through the cracks...
This season, softball is revamping its structure, creating two divisions of four teams each in the league from what had previously been one big division. The new system is the same as the league’s setup for baseball and will result in more league games and, most likely, tighter races down the stretch...
...setup gives us the opportunity to play more games and, bottom line, that’s better,” junior pitcher Amanda Watkins says. “It also gives the season a real sense of competition because the [league title] can be determined by many different factors, not just one game, which it has been like in the past...