Word: spun
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Each time Harvard penetrated to create an open layup, the ball trickled in and spun back out again, often into the hands of BU defenders...
...woman, but because of it. When faced with challenges to gender identity, I’d rather hide myself in the lindy-hop than surrender my sex. Instead of grinding, I simply want to be held like a girl, and rather than bump, I just want to be spun by a boy. Call me heteronormative, traditional, conservative too, but I believe that like Kathryn Murray said, we could all put a little fun in our lives and try dancing, her way. Victoria Ilyinsky ’07 is a romance languages and literature concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears...
...more apparent than on the Internet, however, that at the very least a peculiar subset of our students, alumni, and admirers are truly remarkable practitioners of the art of self-promotion.Wikipedia is by no means the only example. For years, a college admissions bulletin board called Autoadmit.com, which unofficially spun off from the Princeton Review website, has been plagued with a collection of colorful characters. Each seems present only to troll for a particular academic institution. The ringleader of the bunch, and the only one to have been around consistently since the beginning, goes under the handle NYCFan and has posted...
...pension plan were terminated tomorrow, it would be $31 billion short, according to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. GM says its pension obligations are more than fully funded and it has no intention of terminating its plan. But GM may have to shoulder some of Delphi's liabilities--GM spun off Delphi in 1999. In a worst-case scenario, by GM's estimate, the tab for Delphi's 34,000 workers could hit an additional $11 billion. Without unloading its pension obligations, analysts say, GM must find a way to sell more vehicles at higher prices...
...interest in movies and had decided to grant the screenwriter an audience--even though Gaghan hadn't requested one. Naturally, the near kidnapping found its way into Gaghan's new film Syriana, which dramatizes the politics of oil, terrorism and the Persian Gulf in much the same way Traffic spun entertainment out of addiction, drug policy and the U.S.-Mexico border. If anything, Syriana, which opens Nov. 23, is more ambitious and demanding than its predecessor. The movie has multiple narratives that are deliberately confusing. It casts an actor known for his likability, Matt Damon, as an oil trader profiting...