Word: touche
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Hits and runs came infrequently for both squads in game one as Cupp and Miller nearly matched each other the entire way. Harvard, however, would touch Miller for the game's only run in the third, and Cupp held off a last-inning rally from the Tigers to secure the shutout...
...Turin shroud, a possibility flashed through Garza-Valdes' mind. What if the shroud too had a "bioplastic" varnish--and the labs had been fooled into decreeing an object younger than it actually was? In May 1993 Garza-Valdes traveled to Turin, microscope in hand, and was put in touch with Giovanni Riggi, the microanalyst who had parceled out the 1988 samples. Riggi let Garza-Valdes examine a tiny piece of shroud that he assured him came from the same batch. Sure enough, Garza-Valdes discovered a bioplastic film. "I knew immediately that the coating was there," he says. Riggi gave...
...Phil Knight thinking when he agreed to appear in Michael Moore's just released movie? If he actually trusted the populist filmmaker to intervene as Knight went postal on camera and started pumping round after round into his own foot, then Nike's founder is even more out of touch than legend has it. Who volunteers for an ambush interview and then, to compound his error, publicly condemns the outcome...
...consequences. He's crafty, and has consistently outwitted a hostile Congress by appearing to give it what it wants. He is charismatic and feckless, and women (apparently) adore him. In the multiplex theater that has become the U.S., the virtual reality is Hollywood, not Washington. We want a touch of strife and then a happy ending. JAMES E. HASHIM Jacksonville...
Some kids fixate on toy cars or trucks or guns. When David Bohnett, founder of the surprise smash-hit Website GeoCities www.geocities.com) was a little boy, his obsession was the telephone. "I still think phones are the coolest," he says. He remembers when touch-tone phones first came to Hinsdale, Ill., his hometown. "I told my parents I'd give up my allowance if they got one," he says...