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...Harvard signal-caller Ryan Fitzpatrick slunk off the field, the Crimson faithful sat in stunned silence. The junior had just thrown his second interception since entering the game and Dartmouth had already begun to celebrate its stunning 30-16 upset victory on Harvard’s home turf...
...Wednesday as she slunk back into her black limousine, you could see the white flag of surrender, however briefly, on her fallen face. She should freeze-dry that demeanor, and disseminate it on her robin-egg-blue web site. She can find pointers in Hillary's chapter on Monica, which doesn't so much show that Hillary's smart - which we knew - but that she's human, which we sometimes wondered about. That doesn't mean Hillary the legal gladiator doesn't take the opportunity to set the record straight on what she knew (nothing) and when she knew...
...account, Britain lost 450 in the rebellion; other sources put the figure higher. Very quickly the British public, weary of endless war and shocked by reports that the R.A.F. routinely bombed women and children in Kurdish villages, turned against the intervention in Iraq. By the time the British slunk home in the 1930s, Iraq's brush with imperialism seemed over...
...more comfortable to believe that such fanaticism is rooted only in ignorance, in Pakistan, a member of an Islamic militant organization is as likely to be educated and urbane - an engineer, a computer scientist, a military officer or a businessman. Many tried living in America or Europe and slunk back home, shocked and disturbed by the clash of Western culture and values with their own. Alienated, they fall back on Islam to regain their identity...
...first week the Pulau Tiga-based game show aired, ABC scheduled the virtually unbeatable Who Wants to Be a Millionaire against it. Survivor won in almost every audience category. The second week, Survivor won hands down. By the third week--when Regis Philbin, monochrome outfit in tatters, slunk away to lick his wounds, leaving Two Guys and a Girl and Norm to take his butt whuppin' for him--Survivor had ballooned into the biggest TV success since the last voyeur-vision landmark: Fox's gift to late-night comedians, Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? Which--we know...