Word: steeled
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Ferocious all year and unrelenting in their defensive attack schemes, Harvard’s own version of the “Steel Curtain” has made one thing abundantly clear to their opponents—if you try to run against them, you will get mauled. As close a certainty as death and taxes, week after week, the Crimson defense has wreaked havoc on its opponents’ rushing games and demolished opposing running backs with its speed and intensity. Brown’s running backs are still reeling after their debacle earlier in the season, producing only...
...east, at Jean Charles' winery just behind the medieval church, the picture couldn't be more different. Charles usually sells his entire output to a local merchant, who bottles and markets it for him. But this year, for the first time, the merchant won't touch the stuff. Stainless-steel vats are filled with thousands of gallons of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from last year's harvest that Charles is frantic to sell at any price to make room for this year's crop. Charles, 58, stands in his courtyard, surrounded by clucking hens, and struggles for words to describe...
...deplorable. Just an hour into the event, so many non-Harvard students had smuggled themselves in, we felt like we were in an introductory algebra course at the Extension School. Just smelling these commoners made us want to run home and take a shower in rubbing alcohol with a steel wool loofah...
...Inoffensiveness is Ban's outstanding quality. He has spent 36 years as a diplomat, almost all of them outside the spotlight. His peers praise his understated "Confucian approach," as one Chinese expert puts it, but some wonder whether Ban has the steel to play a leading role on the international stage. "This will be the first time he's ever been his own boss," says Peter Beck, the Seoul-based director of the International Crisis Group's North East Asia Project. "Can he really assert himself and stand up to governments that act contrary to the U.N.?" His allies...
Inoffensiveness is Ban's outstanding quality. He has spent 36 years as a diplomat, almost all of them outside the spotlight. His peers praise his understated "Confucian approach," as one Chinese expert puts it, but some wonder whether Ban has the steel to play a leading role on the international stage--a question that's been sharpened by North Korea's latest provocation. "This will be the first time he's ever been his own boss," says Peter Beck, the Seoul-based director of the International Crisis Group's Northeast Asia project. "Can he really assert himself and stand...