Word: spectacular
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With a full roster, the Crimson was a spectacular 14-0-1 in the regular season and trailed in only one contest during that span--for only 30 minutes of game time. Harvard's only loss of the season came against New Hampshire on September 15, and was marked by the absence of all of the team's freshmen, who, due to Harvard University policy, were not allowed to leave campus during orientation week...
Aside from the score, the Crimson defense was spectacular as usual. Led by co-captain Jess Larson, senior back Gina Foster and junior back Lauren Corkery, Harvard had allowed just eight goals entering the game, tied for first in the nation...
...WETTEN DASS? (BET THAT?), Germany. The audience makes spectacular bets, and celebrity guests wager whether the contestants can win the bets. After losing a wager, Hugh Grant had leg hairs pulled out with sticky tape...
...this heady mix of circus and educational extravaganza that draws visitors to a spectacular new science center that opened last week in Columbus, Ohio. Called COSI (Center of Science and Industry), the $125 million facility is a jewel of innovation--a place that its president, former space-shuttle astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, says "persuades people that the words science, learning and fun actually do belong in the same sentence." The anchor for a $2 billion downtown economic-redevelopment program, the complex occupies a 17-acre site along the Scioto River in a once blighted neighborhood that is already brimming with...
...movie's themes, as Almodovar describes it: "the capacity of women to act without being professional actresses: to lie, to fake, to perform. Men and women both have loneliness, pain, the same kind of suffering. But the way women react to these things is much more spectacular, much more cinematic. It does seem that men are made up of fewer pieces than women...