Word: skips
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...controls its own destiny. With two more wins the team will win its first Ivy title in nine years and return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2004. Resting on the foot of one standout sophomore, it doesn’t look like the Crimson will skip a beat. —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...
...word-association game played among asylum residents. (A characteristic sequence of "thoughts": Without Me, Mom, Let us Live, Violence, I Am, Kim, Hell Freezes, Kill You.) In part, he says, this haphazardness is by design. "Reading my lyric sheets even gets confusing for me sometimes," he admits. "I'll skip words so people can't ever figure out where I'm going, just in case my written words slip away into the wrong hands." Frustrating as that may be for readers, this safeguard against creative theft illuminates the tooth-and-nail feistiness required to reach the pinnacle...
...mere kangaroo court, whose rulings are clear before it convenes. Beyond the injustice of the trial itself, the Ad Board suffers additional shortcomings of membership and “sentencing.” Members of the Ad Board are often divorced from the proceedings, since many of them skip hearings related to student discipline. The Ad Board’s punishments are “one-size-fits-all”—too often, students are simply asked withdraw from the College for a year—and are rarely constructive for students. Though the Ad Board claims...
...Eugene M. Plotkin ’00, a research analyst for Goldman Sachs who was savvy enough to make $6.7 million before a judge sentenced him to 57 months in prison for something silly like “insider trading.” It would also be preposterous to skip Frederick H. Gwynne ’51, forever known to audiences everywhere as Herman Munster of the sitcom “The Munsters.” And what about one of the most influential alumni of all time, Rivers Cuomo ’99-’06, Weezer rocker...
...triumph in Minnesota was a stunning political upset with unforeseen causes and unpredictable consequences. He was the first candidate of Ross Perot's Reform Party to win statewide office. He defeated two respected, if not beloved, career politicians--Republican Norm Coleman, mayor of St. Paul, and Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, state attorney general and son of the late Vice President. Ventura's slogan, "Retaliate in '98," seemed an off-key way to appeal to voters in a prosperous and well-governed state with 2.4% unemployment. Retaliate for what...