Word: slipping
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...time. Chinese doctors were swapping damning e-mails about SARS long before the government would admit there was a problem. Just fooling around with spelling and capitalization can outfox China's online filters, and there's free software available that can give Jingjing and Chacha the slip; Google's free Web Accelerator Tool does that quite nicely...
...that we’ve been able to impress upon the younger guys the importance of this roadtrip,” captain Matt Stehle said. “I said to the guys after Saturday’s win, [Yale] was kind of our mulligan. That was our one slip up, and you can’t have another slip up. You know Penn’s not going to slip up, and Yale’s probably not going to slip up again either. We really don’t have an option other than coming home with...
...second sets than expected, they focused enough to hold off their opponents and avoid playing a decisive third set. O’Riain emerged victorious against Katims with a score 6-3, 6-4, while Anderson, who came close to letting her 4-1 second-set lead over Lefkowith slip away, managed to come away with a 6-1, 6-4 win. While pleased with the outcome of Saturday’s match, the Crimson is looking forward to facing more challenging opponents this weekend when the team travels to Madison, Wisconsin for the annual ITA National Team Indoors Championships...
...Officials in both parties agree that Alito has made no obvious slip-ups, but Democrats complained about his parsimonious answers and spotty memory. Particularly harsh exchanges were prompted when the judge-who is known for his fastidiousness-insisted that he could not remember any of the controversy surrounding CAP, and its opposition to affirmative action and the admission of women at Princeton. "I've said what I can say about what I can recall about this group," Alito said, "which is virtually nothing." He went on to say, "I have wracked my memory on this." He added that while...
Spend a few hours with Hollywood producer Jennifer Klein, and you might want to pop a Valium. Or slip her one. From the moment she rises at 7 a.m. in the Sunset Boulevard home she shares with her husband, she's a fidgety, demanding, chattering whirling dervish of a task juggler. Right now Klein, 41, whose credits include Pearl Harbor and Armageddon, has 15 film and TV projects in development--all of them requiring constant nudging and nurture. Her strategy for managing that and several overflowing In boxes: never do just two things at once if you can possibly...