Word: standings
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...Dressed in an impeccably tailored suit, Reid sits alone in a glass-fronted VIP area above the main stand at the Bangkok stadium of Chulalongkorn United. Below him are a few hundred home fans and, opposite them, a few dozen supporters of the Provincial Electricity Authority, the league leaders. Reid has been watching as many league games as possible before picking his national squad. When asked what he's looking for in potential squad members, he replies, "Talent. Pace. Attitude." There are players with all three on the pitch, but Reid has a problem: the stadium's floodlighting...
...seems to give Samuel L. Jackson a run for his money with the amount of work he has done in film, theater, television, stand-up comedy and one-man shows. But John Leguizamo, 44, who stars in the ensemble dramedy Nothing Like the Holidays out Dec. 12, thinks carefully about his performances - training he got mostly from his work on shows like Freak and Mambo Mouth. Leguizamo talked with TIME about the new movie, marriage and the abrupt cancellation of his Broadway show American Buffalo...
...Pretty soon, I couldn’t stand to see my college career plod on in sobriety, and I continued to experiment with ways to imbibe. In the meantime, I developed a debilitating online shopping addiction. But what deepened my drinking despair was the discovery of another problem: although my body violently resisted alcohol’s advances, my mind, speech, and motor skills were all too happy to desert me at the slightest whiff of the poison. My DAPA Nalgene tells me that 78 percent of Harvard students count how many drinks they have, but it?...
...included several of Halberstam’s classmates—emphasized his journalistic clout and integrity in arguing for the proposal’s adoption. “I think a great characteristic of David is that he would not be bullied and was willing to stand up to power,” Palches said. “We know our own government... from time to time lies to the people, and it takes a lot of courage to say no. But that’s what David always did.” Current Crimson president Malcom A. Glenn...
...will ever doubt that this former Army chief of staff has the courage to stand up for our troops and our veterans," Obama said at the Chicago press conference at which he announced his choice of Shinseki. "No one will ever question whether he will fight hard enough to make sure that they have the support that they need...