Word: slating
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...within the UC and, in many cases, to the campus at large. Unlike last year’s election, which included Magnus Grimeland ’07 and Tom D. Hadfield ’08, relative newcomers to the UC at the time, this year’s predicted slate is comprised entirely of past and present UC members. Five even served as representatives during their freshman fall.Although some may ultimately not run and more candidates may pop up, this year’s predicted candidates boast long-standing familiarity with the UC and a track record of working with...
...it—I think we have a very competitive schedule this year and I am looking forward to it,” she says. A quick examination of this year’s schedule reveals that most of the usual suspects are back on Harvard’s slate. But there are still a number of easy league games that may serve more as a chance to pad statistics and test young players than real competition. The Crimson will play Union, Quinnipiac, and Division-I newbie RPI twice—a sextet of games that Harvard could realistically...
...future seemed uncertain after Sony, Comcast and a group of private equity firms acquired its parent MGM in 2004. But now, along with "substantial ownership," Cruise and Wagner will set United Artists' production slate and Wagner will serve as CEO. Cruise will star in and produce films for the revamped company, which plans to deliver about four movies a year to start. Marketing and distribution will be handled...
...Slate officially published the data as it received it, arguing that readers "should know as much about the unfolding election as the anchors and other journalists." Granted, Slate also cautioned that the early exit poll data was not conclusive. Yet that disclaimer did not stop bloggers from "chattering" about the early numbers, says Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. Because of the online leak, "it became widely believed from about 3 p.m. to 7 p.m that John Kerry was ahead," Kohut says. "This online leak caused the stock markets to go down and sent Washington in the wrong...
Second, Ilyinsky's discussion of so-called "Janus words" may draw from a similar discussion in the Slate article. Both articles discuss Janus words, and provide three different examples of them. While the examples are different in each column, their presentation is very similar...