Word: slipping
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They were one win away. One win separated the Harvard women’s basketball team from a repeat of its status as the sole Ivy League champions.But that one win slipped away.The Crimson (18-10, 11-3 Ivy) entered Yale’s John J. Lee Amphitheatre in control of its fate. As the clock ticked down on the regular season, however, the Bulldogs (7-22, 7-7 Ivy) took that control away in a painful 64-58 defeat Saturday night.“We had everything to win,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said...
...most touching chapters. It consists of his belated response to letters sent by a girl twenty-five years ago for whom he still has heartfelt emotions. The majority of the stories are true, causing the reader to wince even more at the authors’ inevitable slip-ups. And yet, because the tales are confessions, they become all the more endearing. While some of the accounts supply the down-and-dirty details, others have a softer, more tender side. In one of these true tales, Rodney Rothman, former head writer for Dave Letterman, awkwardly talks to a childhood sweetheart about...
...inside Israel, a likely response to Israel's hammering of Gaza last week, in which 110 Palestinians, half of them civilians, were killed. After Hamas won the January 2006 general elections in the Palestinian territories, it halted suicide bombings, though other Palestinian groups persisted. Many suicide bombers tried to slip into Israel, and most were caught, lulling many Israelis in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem into thinking that the nightmare of the Intifada bombings was behind them. No longer. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem
...recruiting leeway consistent with “a willingness to say that we really do want to compete for the Ivy championship.” Despite Thamel’s suggestions to the contrary, this is a good thing.None of this, however, means that Harvard is planning to slip below the lofty codified “standards” for admitting basketball players. It can’t. The Ivy League has a strict system based on a formula known as the Academic Index to govern the admission of athletes. An individual’s AI score is computed...
...fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza was triggered by what Israelis saw as a rare opportunity: Five top Hamas commanders, in charge of training commandos, had made the cardinal mistake of commuting to work at a former naval facility in the same car. Once Israel spotted this security slip-up by the Hamas men, they blasted the vehicles with guided missiles from circling aircraft. "We destroyed Hamas' training department," exulted one Israeli military intelligence officer...