Word: squash
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Some of the less glorified sports are starting to make their impressions on the new students. Instead of football and hockey championships, tennis, squash and soccer have surged to the forefront as students have become more impressed with the Crimson's athletic diversity than its brawn...
...legislation allowing tobacco companies to use the cost of a gradual 15-cent per pack increase ? some $50 billion ? as a credit towards the proposed $368.5 billion national settlement, Senators began to disown the plan once it was made public. Wednesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to squash it altogether. "This is the kind of thing that no Congressman wants to go on the record as having voted for," notes TIME's James Carney. The 95-3 vote showed that...
...recycled sewage. The first major legal test of the food-disparagement laws will be a Texas lawsuit, in which a group of cattle ranchers have sued Oprah Winfrey for a show she did on mad-cow disease. States where you risk a suit if you scoff at the squash...
...wool sweaters safe in the Dunster squash courts were a distant memory as I posed in the sand, a giant purple vision, as the skateboarders shook their heads in disbelief. The waves crashed, the palm trees swayed in the background, the rollerbladers whizzed by and I vogued for the camera, home in La-La Land. Dorothy said it best in the Wizard of Oz, "There's no place like home...
...Just moments after our governor explained that he was standing up to the more powerful fringes of his party in defense of his political ideology, evening anchors were already explaining what a savvy political move had just been made. Even if the governor had pulled out his squash racquet and hit them over the head, the Boston media wouldn't have understood that politicians don't always make political decisions...