Word: spectacular
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...Pizzotti committed four turnovers. But heading into the fourth quarter down, 17-6, Pizzotti buckled down to notch three final-frame touchdowns—one by air, two by land—to edge out the Crusaders, 25-24. He finished the day with 370 passing yards in the spectacular comeback.In the next contest against Brown, Pizzotti kept a drive alive as the clock wore down, setting Harvard up for a touchdown to bring the team within two. But a failed two-point conversion resulted in a 24-22 loss to the Bears.As the season progressed, that loss to Brown...
...shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. Through months of testimony (and a seemingly never-ending parade of bizarre hairdos and wigs), Spector has maintained his innocence. On May 29 he was sentenced to 19 years in prison. It's only the latest in a lifetime full of spectacular achievements and mind-swimmingly bizarre events...
...truth, Gates has been bulletproof ever since George W. Bush lured him from Texas A&M University to replace the disastrous Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. His mission, Gates said, was "to put Iraq in a better place," which is a spectacular understatement. Iraq was falling apart in late 2006, and Gates found the Defense Department in paralytic denial. His nonstop effort to reform the institution - abetted by military rebels who had been cast into the outer darkness by the powers that were - is a great untold story of the war on terrorism...
...Christchurch's smartest places to stay, the spectacular Otahuna Lodge, www.otahuna.co.nz, is almost a reason to visit in itself. The nation's largest private historic residence was reborn as a small luxury hotel after a multimillion dollar renovation in May 2007, and today houses a superb art collection courtesy of its new American owners, Hall Cannon and Miles Refo. After a five-course degustation menu by chef Jimmy McIntyre in the clubby Victorian-era dining room, you can warm yourself by the fire (the lodge contains 14 working fireplaces) before retiring to one of seven expansive suites fashioned by Auckland...
...self-loathing, but what do you most dislike about yourself? I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things. I think at some point, some sort of scientist sent me out to space in a time machine and created some spectacular device to put inside my head and I just don't have the manual...