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...poor, hoping to attract young people whose penchant for issue-oriented wristbands was cited as proof that politics is not dying. But no coherent set of policies beyond mutters of "compassionate conservatism" was on offer. ? THEY HAVEN'T GOT A HOT LEADER - YET. The Tory image should sharpen when a new man takes charge in December. The party conclave got its biggest boost from the spirited horse race among five contenders vying for the job; much will depend on whether the stumbling front runner David Davis (widely deemed dull) holds off the hard-charging old gaffer Ken Clarke...
...game against UMass was a great opportunity to play well and to sharpen our skills before the big game on Saturday against Yale,” captain Will Craig said. “We are not satisfied with what we’ve done so far and won’t be until we have an Ivy League title...
Next fall, for the first time in 18 or so years, I wont be heading to school. I wont buy notebooks or sourcebooks; I will not buy or sharpen a fistful of number two pencils. I will not, come September, plan an outfit to wear on the first day of school. And so a pattern that has been varied and repeated with the pleasant regularity of Dickens novels through most of my life will be broken. I am not scared so much as I am bemused. I do not have a template for whatever will happen next...
...more to their taste. The plebes going through Beast in the summer of 2001 were tough: only 41 members quit, the second lowest dropout level in 15 years. They would need to be, since the new superintendent who took command that July, Lieut. General William Lennox, was looking to sharpen the standards. "We had to tighten things up a bit," he says, "give more of the sense of what life is like in the Army." The changes were necessary because sometimes "you can lose focus when...
Without that ability, it’d be easy to get discouraged by the paucity of fans that come to the weekend doubleheaders. Instead, we sharpen our bookmaking skills by setting the line on first pitch attendance. You’re usually safe taking the “under,” no matter how low the mark is placed. Long, slow afternoons also offer plenty of chances to bone up on obscure baseball knowledge, such as the identity of the lesser-known member of Cincinnati’s “Nasty Boys” bullpen trio...