Word: suit
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Dribbling through as many as three defenders, Housman displayed his ability to score at will. But when he ran out of gas in the second overtime, the team followed suit, losing for the seventh straight year in New Jersey. For Housman, the 33-point performance did not ease the pain of a loss. But there was a saving grace—he had arrived as one of the best point guards in the Ivy League...
...Isaac sued the University after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission granted him a “right-to-sue notice” in April 1980, and, after a nine-year battle, eventually settled the suit out of court, with Harvard agreeing to pay for his legal fees and as well as offering to give him a position as a Fellow...
...many may have expected—several rookies extended their years, making a significant contribution to the varsity’s fourth-place finish on Saturday. And just as Radcliffe’s crew is now on the rise, so the rest of the sport is following suit. This leaves the Black and White with one more task: making sure it can keep up. “No one was expecting Bucknell to win,” Chung said. “But it’s exciting that lightweight crew is growing in general...
...hope that this experiment will be vindicated by increasingly diverse and exciting classes of future Harvardians. Princeton and the University of Virginia have already followed Harvard’s lead; as the evidence accumulates in the coming years, we hope other colleges will be willing to follow suit...
...There is something slightly anachronistic about all this. Romney is the most perfect iteration I've seen of the television-era candidate. At one point, I squinted a bit and saw him in the middle distance: blue suit, white shirt, red tie, high forehead, slick black hair, tan, tall and ramrod straight - he could have been an exhibit in some future Museum of Natural History: Politicianus americanus. Matt Lauer and a Today show crew were following him around, and at the high school speech Romney did a slightly cheesy thing, inviting Lauer on stage, amping his candidacy with a.m. glitz...