Word: sharpness
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Just when it seemed that the Crimson had no chance of getting back into the game, the Harvard bats showed signs of life. With the visitors facing a 6-0 deficit in the seventh, senior second baseman Faiz Shakir led off the inning with a sharp double down the right field line, and senior shortstop Mark Mager followed that up with a single to give the Crimson first and third with nobody...
...tangled emotions of troubled parent-child and marital relationships with comic verve, bracing clarity and dramatic tension fused with an undercurrent of pathos. These predicaments are well represented in the seven stories of his first collection...Russo's rueful understanding of the twisted skein of human relationships is as sharp as ever, and the dialogue throughout is barbed, pointed and wryly humorous. The collection is a winner...
...Bush administration's talk of reviving some form of Middle East peace process, the Petah Tikvah suicide bombing was a sharp reality check. The blast that killed two Israelis Monday and sent Israeli tanks back into Jenin suggested that Israel and the Palestinians are back at Square 1. And Square 1 is not simply the situation of two months ago, or even two years ago. The two sides have managed to rewind the clock by a decade, all the way back to before the Oslo agreement...
...only does the current standoff threaten to cloud any peace discussions this summer; it threatens at any moment to blow up in a new wave of violence that would entirely eclipse such discussions. The sharp uptick in attacks on Israelis and the continued Israeli operations inside Area A is more likely to produce a new explosion of bloodshed rather than any progress towards peace. Those who believe in Oslo's basic premise - that Israel and the Palestinian Authority can find their way to peace through bilateral negotiations - are fast becoming an endangered species. (Indeed, the only mainstream Israeli leader...
...some drug dealer's house and was going to just beat him to death. I was crying out of one eye and smiling out of the other. Crying because I had thought my son didn't have any notion of my drug problem. (We all think we're so sharp.) And smiling because he cared that much. And that just straightened me out, realizing the responsibility I had, knowing I had to become a good example instead...