Word: smarts
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...tried looking at a variety of strategic transactions and it emerged that Harvard was indeed the best buyer,” Larsen said. Although the company is unsure of Harvard’s plans for the building, Larsen labeled the purchase a “smart transaction.” Others, however, are unsure. Allston Community Task Force member Harry Mattison said he’s worried the building may continue to sit empty. “We’d like to see it used for anything, almost any sort of use is better than vacant building after vacant...
...upper-middle-class Jewish suburban town, I was smart enough to know that no one I grew up with would ever play major league baseball. But I did dream this: Perhaps one of us upper-middle class Jews would become a sportswriter who got to vote for the Hall of Fame...
...reasonable kids who turn into very smart sportswriters have a weakness for moralizing. There's nothing that excites a sports commentator like a basketball player fighting, a football player caught with pot or a boxer's DUI. Sportswriters are on the far right of the culture wars, reactionaries longing for the days before they were born, when athletes were viewed as paragons of society ... because the sports writers who got drunk with them at Toots Shor agreed not to write about their alcoholism, philandering, gambling and fighting...
...first half,” Hallion said. “At halftime, we knew that it wasn’t indicative of how we could play.” “Before halftime, we looked like we had just never met each other—defensively, not smart and offensively, not connected,” Delaney-Smith added. “I just asked them, ‘Who are you? Have some pride.’”The second half was a different story, as the Crimson forced eight turnovers and committed only five while holding...
...they always say, “Well, that’s probably true, Brigit, but how on earth do you get people to ‘view’ women as leaders? Get all the men on campus together and say, ‘Hey guys, girls are really smart and cool, too. You should start thinking of them as leaders and asking them to run for stuff?’ Give me a break.” Those people have a point—telling men to support women candidates is not the best way to go about business...