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...offensive line a handful of times, as Randolph moved with ease, rolling out of the pocket as well as running the option. “That kid doesn’t get sacked,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “I mean, he just throws the ball away, he’s got a quick outlet. We looked at the film of him last year in three different games, and he doesn’t get sacked. He’s obviously a really fine football player.” In last season?...
...fight promised to be ugly, but the issue would have taken weeks - if not months - to work its way through the Diet. So why did Abe, only three days after promising to fight on, decide to throw in the towel? Plagued by rumors of chronic ill health, he looked exhausted in the days before his resignation announcement. "Abe broke under the pressure," says Norihiko Narita, a politics professor at Surugadai University near Tokyo. "The weight of his responsibilities was just too much." For his part, Ozawa expressed bewilderment over the about-face. "I have been in politics nearly 40 years...
...compensating for the slowdown in housing. But when the Labor Department reported in September that job creation had lurched into reverse after four years of gains, the tune on Wall Street and elsewhere shifted abruptly. Economists began fretting that, for the first time, a real estate bust would throw the country into recession--a sustained period when the economy shrinks instead of grows and lots of people lose their jobs...
...able to keep so many of his pictures," says Ng Siu-yee with a sad smile. A longtime friend and colleague of Yau's, and today the administrator of his copyright, Ng jokes that had Yau been married, "I'm sure his wife would have made him throw most of his photos out. He was a real hoarder, not just of photos but of everything - newspaper clippings, tram tickets - and you know how small Hong Kong apartments...
...handicap. In the YouTube era, overcoming shyness is the equivalent of killing a mammoth in the Ice Age: an essential survival skill and milestone achievement to be celebrated in picture and song. There is no greater go-to movie scene today than the one in which people throw inhibition to the wind and perform: the climactic Super Freak dance in Little Miss Sunshine, the Age of Aquarius singalong in The 40 Year-Old Virgin...