Word: skills
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...conservatives by personally penning the opinion upholding Miranda v. Arizona, the decision requiring police to read those they take into custody their rights, a ruling he had earlier savaged. Rehnquist took his job very seriously, writing books and donning special judicial robes with raised gold stripes. But his greatest skill was unseen. In an increasingly fractious political era--mirrored in the court's many split decisions--he had the emotional temperament to build majorities and keep the court functioning. That is no small qualification for the person who replaces...
...Tennis fans, on the other hand, head for the side courts, where the world?s greatest players-OK, so maybe they?re not the top seeds-are no farther than a drop shot away. The first day session at the Open is a fantastic place to see the amazing skill you need to play at this level, to catch youngsters on the way up-say, Roger Federer in 2000-or watching some familiar names struggle with their games...
...easy. Trish has some issues of her own, and preternatural amounts of patience are required before they finally consummate their union. Apatow, who was largely responsible for television's cult hit Freaks and Geeks and did all right with last year's Anchorman, has something of a magician's skill with misdirection. The film's core audience gets all the vulgarity it could possibly require. But adults with reflexes quick enough to shut their eyes and cover their ears when they feel the stupidity coming on may, from time to time, feel a twinge of amused compassion for this ensemble...
...whole Penn-Harvard debate is the fact that, while the Quakers and Crimson split the 16 first-place votes, Brown walked away with zero. The Bears, which led Harvard by 21 at half and came within a desperation drive of topping Penn, lost none of its key skill position players and returns a solid defense anchored by Zak DeOssie...
...deserved—sits Columbia. The Lions were terrible last season. Ostensibly, they spent the off-season getting worse. Columbia graduated its top quarterback, running back and tight end from a team that managed just 99 points in seven Ivy games last year. With just one All-Ivy caliber skill position player, the Lions might be lucky to hit half of that this season...