Word: slicks
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With the Crimson’s passing game castrated by Hurricane Ivan’s wrath, Fitzpatrick did all he could trust his slick palms to do—and handed the ball off to Dawson...
...samples of Colombian coffee. At the same time, high-rent entertainment p.r. firm Rogers & Cowan managed to work Juan's logo into the final season of Friends and finagled an invitation for the mustachioed coffee grower to HBO's Emmy Awards after-party this week. It's a surprisingly slick strategy for the socialist-minded, nonprofit federation, which for decades has used the proceeds from its coffee sales to build roads, schools and health clinics in coffee-growing regions...
...Though few pugilistic pundits give Somluck a realistic chance in Athens (he was almost bounced from the team recently for missing training sessions), his teammate Somjit Jongjohor could well become Thailand's third-ever gold medalist. Somjit, the 2003 world amateur flyweight champion, is a slick boxer with a talent for weaving out of trouble and counterpunching his way to victory. But even if he stumbles in Athens, Somjit has a backup career?like Somluck, he's recorded his own album...
...Instead, he glimpsed something horrifying: a speeding truck was hurtling toward him, the driver wrestling with the wheel as the vehicle skidded over the slick tarmac. Raja vaulted to safety over a steel road divider just as the truck plowed into the other bikers. Four were killed instantly and a dozen were injured. "All I got was a cut from the hitting the divider," Raja recalled the next day. "The others never saw the truck coming. They didn't have a chance...
...important distinction. And that's the lesson Kerry's hometown has to offer in this election, just as Arkansas and Texas contributed their stories of Slick Willie and Dubya. The conversation about Kerry in the restaurants and backyards around Boston is laced with disappointment in a man who has always preferred the national stage to the neighborhood pub. "People here like talkers. You go to any bar in the city, and it's full of b.s. artists," says Joe Keohane, editor of the Weekly Dig, an alternative newspaper in Boston. "I don't think he ever mastered the political dialect...