Word: snagging
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...with the number of incumbents in the Houses, 23, virtually the same as prior years, it is clear that the new flood of upper-class candidates are not polically-hungry students trying to snag the spot of a departed senior or a former disillusioned representative. All these candidates will have to campaign for their spots on the council...
...audience—many of whom had camped out last weekend to snag a ticket to the speech—rose as a group of Tibetan monks, Harvard administrators and security officers filed in around the Dalai Lama, who grinned at the crowd and chatted to a group of Tibetan musicians in their native language...
...meeting with Abbas to discuss a cease-fire. And if Bush sides with Sharon, the stature the President has only just secured with the Arabs will disappear. "The summit was fine and dandy," says a senior Arab diplomat who participated in the sessions. "But there will be a snag. If Bush steps in and clears it up, everyone will fall into line behind him. If he doesn't, they'll write him off." And yet the risks for Bush may be less than they seem to be. "The public has low expectations of success because they know so many...
...drive to crack the top two hit a snag mid-season as an unexpected challenge emerged from the Ancient Eight cellar—Penn...
...Ph.D. under his belt (he graduated from Columbia in 2000), a passion for thoughtful conversation and a bit of career lust, Allen decided to enter the marketplace—of ideas. Last fall, Allen set up a table in Union Square’s fruit market and, hoping to snag future paying clients, offered free one-on-one philosophical consultations to anyone who had a pressing existential concern...