Word: slates
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...weeks into the schedule, though, Harvard cannot afford to show any more signs of early-season rust. Even if Harvard wins in Philadelphia tomorrow, it has a difficult slate of games coming up, including battles against No. 14 Hartford and No. 20 Connecticut...
...great pair of corduroys (it is just me, or was fall much less humid back in the ?70s?). I would head off to the bus stop with my neighbors, or start the one-mile trek to my high school with an unmistakable spring in my step. A clean slate! A brand new year, ripe with new opportunities to learn, new educational vistas to scale, and, please God, new boys...
...make that hardly visible) running mate even got off a good one at the expense of his opposite, who's been making Cheney look like the dud of the slate. "One observer of the military," Cheney said Wednesday, "had this to say last year: 'Our military faces readiness problems,' he cautioned, 'including falling recruitment, and retention in critical skill areas; aging equipment that costs more to keep operating at acceptable levels of reliability; a need for more support services for a force with a high percentage of married personnel; and frequent deployments...
...shake her hand at her May law-school graduation, she pulled him into a hug. Gore may be known to some as "Prince Albert," but his eldest child is known for never putting on airs. She's the kind of person who, Michael Kinsley, editor of the online magazine Slate, recalls, did not mind doing scut work as an editorial assistant...
...shares her father's attachment to Tennessee, where she was born. "Everyone says I had a really strong Southern accent," she sighs. "I'm so bummed I lost it." She is self-deprecating about her experiences in the world of the powerful. Writing about Gore's second Inaugural in Slate, she described Chuck Berry stepping on her foot and how all the party tenting made her house look like the death scene in E.T. When she went off to Spain after college in 1995 to work on a newspaper there, she declined to use a car that had been found...