Word: snags
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With only one homestand left to play in the regular season, the Harvard men's hockey team has one last chance to snag home-ice for the first round of the ECAC playoffs...
...Indian state of Maharashtra, which has electricity galore, thanks to a major power complex set up by Dabhol Power Co., a consortium of foreign companies led by Enron Corp. of Houston, Texas. But before Maharashtrans fire up their irrigation pumps or coiled-wire tea kettles, there's one small snag: the electricity is so expensive no one can afford it. "More than 600 small manufacturers have already closed down because of high electricity bills," says Ashwin Treasurer, owner of an electronic component factory. "What sort of development is this...
Chocolat won't win the top prize, but it may snag a Best Supporting Actress award for Judi Dench, who has been nominated three of the past four years and won for her cameo as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, especially since the two strongest competitors, Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand, are from a shared film?as mother and muse, respectively, in the Age of Rock memoir Almost Famous...
...schoolmasters buy a bit of sex with lonely wives and trade a bit of sex with willing pupils for A's. Some students consider it an honor to sleep with the teacher, a badge of superiority. The girls brag about it to their peers, preening in their ability to snag an older man. "The teachers are the worst," says Jabulani Siwela, an AIDS worker in Zimbabwe who saw frequent teacher-student sex in his Bulawayo high school. They see a girl they like; they ask her to stay after class; they have a nice time. "It's dead easy...
...later, up in the RV-park owner's office, Gina Holder watched from a window. She and her husband will probably snag a part of the $500,000 reward. But she isn't thinking about that now. Sister Gina is doing a five-minute interview--"just five minutes, that's all, five minutes"--and thinking about Brother Jim. "He was sweet, soft-spoken. They talked about how all seven of them traveled around, stopping at motels to take showers. They stayed in our premium site." And how would she gauge Brother Jim's sincerity, the man who left the open...