Word: spartan
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Buying another pair of boots was not on my mind until the bus stopped at the corner of Madison Avenue and 61st Street long enough for me to get a good look into the Barney's window. There in casual spartan urbanity were leather and suede accessories, a stark juxtaposition to the flashy holiday display that had twinkled there for weeks. But it wasn't the brown suede poncho-slash-bolero perched on a pedestal like the thing of beauty it was that made this capable shopper flush. No, it was the huge diagonal block of letters that read CLEARANCE...
...most recent pair of losses against the top-ranked Spartans, Yale was denied a tally by stellar Spartan goaltender Ryan Miller. Harvard will look for an intense effort out of its defense, whose play has been ignited by freshman Kenny Smith...
...lonely splendor of the spartan but magnificently located office seven stories above Pennsylvania Avenue is a dream job to a poor but idealistic Jersey City boy who bootstrapped his way through law school aspiring to public service like his childhood heroes, trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt and gangbuster Tom Dewey...
...chief message to married parents is clear: Suck it up if you possibly can, and stick it out. But even if you agree with Wallerstein, how realistic is such spartan advice? The experts disagree. Then again, her advice is not for experts. It's directed at people bickering in their kitchen and staring up at the ceiling of their bedroom. It's directed at parents who have already divorced and are sitting alone in front of the TV, contemplating a second...
...ready for some football? Does anybody ever answer "no" to that question? Certainly not any of us here at the spartan training camp that is the TIME.com nerve center, a happy place where religion and politics have reached an uneasy truce but the NFL is welcome at any hour. Returning for a second straight year are Long Island Slim, Mean Josie Greene and the K.C. Line, fresh off a rigorous off-season conditioning program and some cracklin' spring minicamp performances and ready to tackle the big questions facing the league in Week One, like "What gives with those new Rams...