Word: slates
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Maybe it's the slush and slate-gray skies, or the unscrubbed, dour faces of my overworked classmates, or the prospect of that final exam coming up tomorrow morning--but lately, I've started feeling a tad pessimistic about the state of the world...
...What does it all mean? That she, like any great star, is a blank slate on which any member of the public can write his or her own particular fantasy. Her response to the question of whether she, privately, is more like her "Marias" or the flashily dressed, seductive chanteuse, is a carefully measured one: "The public can choose how they want to see me. Some like the image of a tender girl, the poor girl of the soap operas. Others see me [as] more aggressive, strong, the way, I am sometimes on stage... I let my fans decide...
Last year's Crimson team closed out its non-conference slate with its season-worst offensive performance at Northeastern and a weak second-half effort at New Hampshire. But when Dartmouth came to town for the Ivy opener, the Crimson dealt the eventual league champions their most humiliating loss of the season...
Harvard and Dartmouth are unquestionably the two most consistent programs in the Ivies. Harvard vs. Dartmouth has been both the first and last game of the entire conference slate for two years...
Both Harvard and Dartmouth had taken similar paths leading up to Saturday's match-up. Each team had been roughed up by a challenging slate of non-conference games--the two toughest schedules of any Ivy team--to start the season. During the course of those games, they both suffered more then their fair share of troubles with too many turnovers, too little defense, and too low shooting percentage...