Word: slipping
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Last week’s slip up at Columbia notwithstanding, the Quakers have way too much firepower for the Big Green to be able to stay in this contest...
...That’s not enough. So much of Harvard is about image, about the projection of academia—can a hockey coach who once showed up on ‘The Price Is Right’ in whitewashed jeans slip seamlessly into the stodgy ranks of Mass. Hall...
After letting a close game slip away the night before, the Harvard women’s basketball team wasn’t about to let it happen again. Still shaking off a disappointing loss at Brown on Friday night, the Crimson recovered to hold off an aggressive Yale team, taking the lead for good with two minutes to play in the first half and holding on for a 59-54 win at New Haven. In the first half, Harvard struggled against Yale’s stiff defense. The Elis applied aggressive ball pressure and disciplined help-side rotation...
...second is that ice on the glaciers' surfaces has melted at a record rate in two of the past four years. "Some of that water," says Dowdeswell, "presumably percolates down through crevasses," lubricating the soft sediments at the base of the glaciers and allowing the huge ice floes to slip more quickly...
...case in point is GPS navigation: I tested ALK's CoPilot Live 6 for Smartphones, which comes with a Bluetooth GPS receiver that sits on your dashboard. You slip a MiniSD card into the phone (annoyingly, under the battery) and after a quick software install, the program runs. It communicates wirelessly with the GPS receiver, and quickly discovers its location. The turn-by-turn navigation experience was fairly positive, although on occasion it did point me in the wrong direction, as if a U-turn was part of the itinerary. It's no Garmin, but it passes the basic tests...