Word: spins
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...plays as well as the original work of others. In his very first year at Harvard, Cutmore-Scott wrote, directed, and produced “Fall,” a comedy about the ups and downs of being a freshman. “There is always a spin and twist to his writing,” Zachary B. Sniderman ’09 notes. “Even with something like ‘Fall,’ which seems straightforward, he was looking for ways to break the boundaries...
...first pitcher, adjusting to her speed,” Allard said. “We didn’t get a runner on third base the whole game. Two hits. It wasn’t like she was overpowering, but she just was offspeed, and she would spin the ball. She was very effective and did a very good job against...
...election is the battle for the soul of a country, and party spin doctors are busily concocting competing visions of Britain to lure voters to the polls on May 6. The stakes are high. The Conservatives' lead in opinion polls is too narrow to guarantee an outright victory, and that might allow the Labour government to hang on by the skin of its teeth (Britain's electoral system favors incumbents), or it could result in a hung parliament, with Liberal Democrats and other smaller parties holding the balance of power...
Meanwhile, Brown's new spin-off will absorb Motorola's $3 billion in debt. But the split also means his charge will be able to keep the strong cash flow. "We will reinvest some of that money in expanded innovation, and we can consider ways to grow the firm organically or potentially through acquisitions," Brown says. "It will also be easier to attract world-class talent to a world-class firm rather than one in transition." Perhaps two heads will prove, after all, to be better than...
Even though the original version of the game won't be touched, some serious Scrabblers are up in arms about the relaxed regulations in the spin-off game. "They're dumbing down a classic," Keith Churcher, chairman of a Scrabble club in the British city of Reading, told the Daily Mail newspaper. "Players like myself have spent decades memorizing words in the dictionary." On Twitter, a fan lamented, "Proper nouns allowed in new version of Scrabble?! Unbelievable ..." (See a video on Twitter poetry in London...