Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior back Lee Williams was whistled for an illegal tackle, and on the ensuing free kick, Stimpson--the 1997 Ivy Rookie of the Year--took a touch pass from sophomore midfielder Adam Brown and drilled a groundball from the top of the penalty...
...history-obsessed prisoners of their own appetites, have always been their own worst enemy and each other's salvation. Clinton's ideological overreaching helped put Gingrich in the Speaker's chair; Gingrich's arrogance and petulance handed Clinton his re-election. The lesson for both: it takes a deft touch to set the right trap; but if you do, the other one will stumble right into...
...timid, neurotically oppressed, sexually obsessed, glumly funny urban male who somehow stumbles his way to conditional happiness. That his urb happens to be an ant colony, his beloved (Sharon Stone) its overindulged princess and his nemesis (Gene Hackman) a fascist general mounting a coup adds a nice weird touch to the tale, as does the dark-toned computer animation. Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome the relief from the prevailing blandness of family films...
Also in absentia was Dolores Kreiger, ProfessorEmerita at New York University, who received theScience Education Ig Nobel for "demonstrating themerits of therapeutic touch," a method by which acaretaker manipulates the energy fields of ailingpatients by carefully avoiding physical contactwith patients...
Unfortunately, the Crimson must now do without junior midfielder Ryan Keeton who, constantly nagged by a pair of bad ankles and a broken toe, bowed out for the season this week. Keeton, a regular starting midfielder, used his golden touch to set up many a Crimson forward, and thus was key to the Crimson's offensive attack...