Word: stiffs
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...reads the game well. I’m very happy with both of them.” A healthy blend of veteran leadership and youthful spunk has invigorated the Crimson, who are now riding a two-game winning streak. After beating Cornell and No. 19 Fairfield, Harvard awaits a stiff challenge from Brown this Saturday. “It’s a big week for Harvard soccer and we’ve been talking about that the past couple days in practice,” Kerr said. “I told them after the game that good teams...
...Harvard also have a unique opportunity to influence some of the most critical national races by aiding swing-race campaigns in nearby states. In Pennsylvania, for instance, incumbent Republican Senator Rick Santorum is battling a stiff challenge from the state’s Democratic Auditor General Bob Casey in a race that has tightened considerably in the past months. If the rest of the Senate races are returned to the incumbent or incumbent’s party, a victory for the Democrats in Pennsylvania would even the Senate at 50 seats apiece. Because of the closeness and importance of this...
...don’t want to be mean, but if you have the time, go to Penn’s athletics website and check out Irvin’s photo. What a stiff...
...week. Smiley contended that his full cooperation with the government—he maintained in his Tuesday memo that 40 out of the 97 thefts would not have been realized without his assistance—merits a reduced sentence. His library opponents disagree and hope to see a stiff sentence handed down on Sept. 27. “One of the potential harms when a person like Smiley—someone who was trusted, and went on for seven and a half years—is that libraries might limit access to valuable collections out of fear and thus limit...
...read that fine old Cockney ballad My Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole and picks up on the way I always sound the consonant at the end of a word (I pronounce it righ-T, not righ'). According to him, I don't just have a British stiff upper lip but a tense lower one as well. He shows me what I'm doing and it looks uncannily like the Queen, whose voice is even more pinched than mine. He tells me to relax my face by pretending to be the British glamour model Jordan applying lipstick...