Word: slating
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Even reigning Ivy League champions can struggle to find a rhythm. Coming off a campaign that resulted in its first Ancient Eight title in nine years, the Harvard women’s soccer team still found plenty to work on before the Ivy slate begins in three weeks. The Crimson (0-1-1) kicked off its 33rd season at Ohiri Field on Friday afternoon, battling a slow start in a 1-1 double-overtime draw with San Diego State (2-2-1). “We didn’t bring the effort, we didn’t bring...
Forest Lawn offered a clean slate surrounded by a who's who of Old Hollywood. The 300-acre hillside sanctuary is the final resting place of Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracey, Sammy Davis Jr., Errol Flynn and George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen. Humphrey Bogart and "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford are yards away from each other in the same walled (and locked) garden. Around the grounds are chapels - replicas of famous European churches - such as the "Wee Kirk o' the Heather" (Ronald Reagan tied the knot with Jane Wyman there in 1940). In other locations there are replicas...
...Lapp, who has served as UC's chief business officer since May 2007, will take on a similar slate of responsibilities at Harvard—directing the University's offices for human resources, finances, and administration, which reported directly to the president prior to Forst's brief tenure. She will also work to streamline University-wide operations and services and will serve on the board of the Harvard Management Company, which manages the University's endowment. "Katie has a reputation for effectiveness, honesty, and integrity in whatever she undertakes," University President Drew G. Faust said in a statement released today...
...relatively affluent, peaceful Kurdish North is feuding with al-Maliki's government over its borders and resources. Gates met with Barzani, who claimed victory in a re-election vote last weekend that also saw large gains by an opposition slate, in Irbil, seat of the regional government...
...find sources for Baron Cohen's comic method in a lot of places. He's a great fan of Peter Sellers, and one Sellers role in particular hovers over everything Baron Cohen does - Chance the Gardener, the blank slate in Being There who provokes all those around him to expose themselves in some way. And then there's the other comic who was routinely described as a performance artist: Andy Kaufman. For starters, Borat owes a thing or two to Latka, the Ruritanian innocent that Kaufman played on Taxi. More important, Baron Cohen's approach calls to mind those Kaufman...