Word: standout
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...famous for its role in the Dean Campaign, is a liberal-leaning political blog, as is the group blog The Huffington Post, brainchild of former California gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington. The trouble is that certain issues tend to get magnified by this bunch, and others suppressed. One minor but standout example was pointed out in frustration this past October by Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society and a well known blogger and activist who focuses on issues of technological development in some of the poorer countries in Africa...
...cult-hit “Galaxy Quest”—heads a top-notch production, making “Fun with Dick and Jane” more than your average Carrey flick. Alec Baldwin, Angie Harmon, and Richard Jenkins give memorable supporting performances, but the real standout here is the dazzling Leoni, who steals every scene as the straight (wo)man to the larger-than-life Carrey. Her comic timing is so in tune, she and Carrey are the perfect comic team. Leoni’s character, a desperate housewife trying to keep up appearances as her life...
...matchup with Long Island will be guard play. Lehigh’s duo of Kyle Neptune and Jose Olivero torched the Crimson perimeter defense, combining for 39 points in the Mountain Hawks’ 67-56 win. The Blackbirds boast two standout guards of their own—James Williams and Randy Jones—who together average 26 points a game, and more importantly have combined to hit 41 percent of their threes on the season...
...pieces in the areas of politics, economics and diplomacy, including a major story on former Labor leader Mark Latham in the run-up to last year's federal election ("Latham's Ladder," October 4, 2004). The judges said: "Incisive, lively, beautifully written, Dusevic's piece on Latham was the standout critique of the most analysed person in Australia at the time...
...that offers the reader a fly-on-the-wall perspective, Tyler's work really blossoms, so to speak, in the final third of the book. Created mostly after her child-rearing duties wound down, the colors explode and the work becomes more poetic, but still real and funny. One standout piece, called "My American Labels" (which also appears in Roadstrips, a fine new anthology of American cartoonists published by Chronicle Books) reads as a series of long panels designed to be affixed over cans of beans. Each label, "Wooden House," "Cone Drip," "Panting Dog," etc., contains a meditation on being...