Word: standout
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...played with the United States’ team, while sophomore forward Sarah Vaillancourt skated with Team Canada. The situation for the Big Green is a bit reversed: four players—forwards Gillian Apps, Cherie Piper, and defenseman Katie Weatherston—skated for our northern neighbors, while freshman standout Sarah Parsons wore the red, white, and blue. Right now, however, neither team has its top stars at 100 percent. Chu suffered a badly sprained ankle against Minnesota-Duluth two weekends ago, and was noticeable hobbled in the last two games (after sitting out a loss to UConn...
Donald Strathairn (“Good Night, and Good Luck”), in the role of Marshall University’s president, is also a standout. Though Strathairn faces a great deal of criticism for continuing the football program, he stands by what he considers to be the desire of the student body...
...producers (MF Doom, Madlib) as well as lesser-knowns (Fantom of the Beats), provide most of the songs on “More Fish” with hearty, soulful beats. Samples of classic soul tracks have always been fertile backgrounds for Ghost, and this album shows no exceptions. One standout here is the use of Michael Jackson’s “Ain’t No Sunshine” on “Street Opera.” But that’s not to say the album has only one sound; other tracks like...
Yesterday, the standout on the Harvard men’s soccer team was called into the United States Under 20 men’s national training camp, which will take place between Dec. 12 and 20 at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. It is the prelude to the American team competing in the 2007 CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament...
...while some authors travel the worn path of recycling well-known protagonists, some of the best are the more daring, which experiment with giving their secondary characters lead roles, such as the gritty “Epitaph,” a true standout that avoids the typecasting that plagues so many of the other stories in this volume...