Word: stints
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...Roast Beef Could Fly has received courtesy of its author is perhaps more notable than the book’s endearing caricatures of a baby-faced, pointy-chinned kid-Leno or even the storyline itself. An appearance on “The Today Show” followed by a stint filling in for Kelly Ripa on “Live with Regis and Kelly,” combined with an appearance with Barbara Walters and the gang on “The View”—all airing on the same morning—seemed nauseating overkill, even...
...Cooney” Weiland Award (team spirit and competitiveness)—went to assistant captain Tyler Kolarik. The Crimson’s heart and soul enjoyed the most productive season of his career, scoring 30 points to finish a four-year stint with 115 points in 130 games played. Kolarik was his usual instrumental self on the team’s top power play and penalty kill units, but added another aspect of leadership by example in his play alongside freshman linemates Du and Steve Mandes...
...fifth spot on the singles ladder, the Crimson’s Alli Pillinger notched a win in her first match after returning from a four-month stint on the disabled list. Her 6-1, 6-1 victory pushed the Harvard lead...
...demonstrated an uncomfortable intimacy between U.S. power and the forerunners of al-Qaeda was the case of Sergeant Ali Mohammed, a former major in Egyptian military intelligence who had served as a Sergeant at the U.S. military's Special Forces base at Fort Bragg from 1986-1989. Before his stint at Fort Bragg, Mohammed had been well connected in Egyptian radical Islamist circles, all the way up to bin Laden's Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and during his tenure in the U.S. Army he took weekends off to travel to the New York area where he gave military training...
Clarke's timing is indeed convenient. Against All Enemies came out the week he testified before the commission. If he receives a typical royalty rate, he would make at least $1.8 million from sales. But Clarke is not easily caricatured. He just ended a 30-year stint for the Federal Government in which work, not money, was his life. He never married. He lives, according to his book, in an "old Sears-catalog house." He has served three Presidents. Until he retired last year, he spent holidays holed up in command centers, worrying about Americans' safety. Every footprint Clarke...