Word: takings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been said many times and many ways after a successful season opener, but it has to be said again after a stunning performance by the women's swimming and diving team on Saturday: Maybe this is the year that Harvard can take...
...After seeing everyone swim this weekend, we feel a lot more confident that we can take Brown down," Gustafsson said. "There is no doubt in our minds that we can win next weekend...
Which brings me to the bottom line. As much as Harvard struggled, it still had plenty of chances to win. Take away one costly turnover in the neutral zone during overtime, and the unbeaten streak could have lived on. But how important is a winning streak, especially one from a season that is already over...
...John McCain's Republican opponents had been waiting for months to take him down a peg. His issue, campaign-finance reform, was up for debate in the Senate. One after another, Senators from his own party baited him, hoping to bring out his famous temper. "They tried to get him to explode on the floor," says McCain's ally, Democrat Russ Feingold. "They tried as hard as they could." McCain rocked in his shoes; he folded and then unfolded his arms; he fidgeted with the papers on his lectern. But the man once crowned Senator Hothead did not blow...
...sometimes resemble the way he boxed while at the Naval Academy. "McCain would charge to the center of the ring and throw punches until someone went down," writes Robert Timberg in his account of McCain and four other notable academy grads of the Vietnam era. McCain's Manichaean take on the world may be effective in war, but it doesn't always work well on subtle issues like health care or tax cuts. "If you are against him, he sees you as evil or paid for or corrupt," says a colleague who has tangled with McCain but nevertheless admires...