Word: stretch
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...looked at America and picked Obama to lead it. Some might see America as a Wyeth painting, some might see it as Rothko, but in the end we all came to the same conclusion. Calling Wyeth “America’s painter” is a stretch, but whether his critics would agree or not, I am willing to grant him common footing with the most outré expressionist of his day. In other words, I’m back to believing...
...Scotland, the government on Monday upped its stake in the bank to almost 70% in order to help boost its lending capability. The timing could hardly have been worse: the bank announced on Monday that its losses for 2008 could be as high as $41 billion - by some stretch the biggest loss in British corporate history. Much of that loss is due to RBS's ill-timed acquisition of Dutch lender ABN Amro in 2007. "Yes, I'm angry at RBS and what happened," Brown conceded. But, he added, "We have to recognize anger is not enough...
...Britain may be small - and its press sometimes small-minded - but Hare has helped stretch its artistic influence across the Atlantic. His plays set theater fans buzzing in both London and New York City; most recently The Vertical Hour, a look at the Anglo-American political and cultural divide, and before it, Stuff Happens, about the run-up to the Iraq war in the White House. In 2007, Hare directed Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway in a well-received adaptation of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. And his screenplays are like catnip to the Hollywood A-list...
...being able to run so much in front of a home crowd,” Saretsky said. “We have a lot of really exciting meets coming up so we hope a lot of people come out to watch.” Heading into the final stretch before Heps, Harvard has to be pleased with what it has in its arsenal. According to the International Association of Athletics Federations, senior high jumper Becky Christensen is currently tied with just four other jumpers as No. 1 high jumper in the world. Christensen is the only representative from the United...
...maybe not. But at least we can say that we know what one of our Senators looks like in stretch pants...