Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker was plainly eager to inspire a few miracles himself. Revived prospects for peace could bolster the floundering Bush re-election campaign. Baker has mentioned the idea of a late-summer parley in Washington to steal a jump on the next round of talks in Rome, expected no sooner than September. After that, the sessions may well relocate to Cairo, which Mubarak has offered as a future venue, if Syria will go along...
...Angel, an overwrought vision of possession and sexual hysteria. A co- production with Covent Garden, it was directed as an arresting theater piece by British experimental director David Freeman. Freeman uses gymnasts as the devils who torment the heroine, having rehearsed them in concentrated, mesmerizing animal movements that quickly steal the spotlight from the singers. Trendy? Possibly. But the production maintains its musical balance as well...
...comp" seemed like an evil concept before I arrived at Harvard. It was described in those Fiske-esque, ultimate-insider guides to college as the embodiment of typical Harvardian ruthlessness. Harvard: so high-powered, so many superstars, that there's not only cutthroat, steal-the-books-from-the-library-and-hide-them-und er-your-pillow competition in academics--but you've got to fight for your right to join extracurriculars as well. Scary stuff...
...agency and the CIA. "One standard of C.I.S. conduct should be a stand-down on intelligence gathering," argues Paul Joyal, a former U.S. Senate intelligence committee staff member who now heads Integer, an information-security consulting firm. "We can't be expected to invite them to dinner if they steal the silverware...
More so than any other squad clad in Crimson, this Harvard team produced a balanced effort from which any one of several players could step up and steal the game. Women's lacrosse demonstrated the depth and balance that marks a national-caliber squad...