Word: shadowing
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...interests." Last week Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal was similarly scathing: "He cannot be an honest broker and only meet with one side." Even the closest U.S. ally is growing tense. Britain's Tony Blair has jetted in and out of the region for weeks, acting as shadow Secretary of State for Colin Powell, who went to the region three times this year and won't go back again without any tricks in his diplomatic bag. A senior British official told TIME last week that the U.S. must move soon on a new Middle East agenda to ease...
...congratulate the hapless residents of New Haven for hanging on for so long. It’s hard to remain in Harvard’s shadow for three centuries, but Yalies have always managed to limp along rather gracefully. Just as a Harvard man was president during our tercentennial, a Yale man is in the White House for theirs (though George W., a Yalie through-and-through, really finished in second place...
...cover of Christopher Hitchens’s latest book finds the author pictured, dapper in a rumpled olive trench coat and five o’clock shadow, brandishing a cigarette and gazing at us with obstinate skepticism. By posing as the craggy dissident, as if slumped in the corner of some dim café, the British-born journalist and author evidently seeks to cast himself as a morose rebel from the outset. The mission of Letters to a Young Contrarian, the latest addition to a career carved in stubborn public controversy, fits in nicely with this conceit: the seasoned revolutionary...
Blewett wasn’t always quite so confident. He emerged from the shadow of Mike Giampaolo ’00 to take over the kicking duties in the fall of his sophomore season. He missed one of his two field goals against Holy Cross in his first game—a 32-yarder that would have brought the Crimson within a touchdown in a game it eventually lost, 27-25. Blewett went on to miss his next four field goals that year, and looking back, chalks it up to his psychological state...
Blewett wasn’t always quite so confident. He emerged from the shadow of Mike Giampaolo ’00 to take over the kicking duties in the fall of his sophomore season. He missed one of his two field goals against Holy Cross in his first game—a 32-yarder that would have brought the Crimson within a touchdown in a game it eventually lost, 27-25. Blewett went on to miss his next four field goals that year, and looking back, chalks it up to his psychological state...