Word: touche
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...second term started to unravel last March when he attempted, and failed, to dismiss the increasingly independent supreme court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Since then his popularity, which was at record highs when he first took power from a Prime Minister widely seen as corrupt and out of touch, has plummeted to levels below that of Osama bin Laden (though still higher than U.S. President George W. Bush, according to a new poll). Last week, through his lawyer, Musharraf promised the Supreme Court that he would step down as chief of the army if he were elected. Many opposition politicians...
Many insiders marvel at Hermann's touch for managing high-strung talent. With Galliano, she knew when to challenge and when to back off. So after he showed her samples of shockingly immodest miniskirts and transparent tops, Hermann says, she nudged him into lining them. But after 9/11, when Galliano created a collection in camouflage, Hermann didn't comment?and the public loved...
...some point, you'd need to relax and get in touch with your "spiritual self...
...guys on the field as a back, so I’m just using the advantage I’m provided, which is that I’m allowed to cut,” Ho says. “I guess the bottom line is that they did not touch Liam [O’Hagan], so that’s what I’m hoping...
...first half alone, do the math.” The Crimson, however, needed no mathematics to explain its second-half performance. Lewis opened the second half with another goal, but it would prove to be MIT’s last for the night. Harvard finally found its scoring touch in the second half, scoring seven unanswered goals and stifling the Engineers with a staunch zone defense. “We changed our defense after the first to a more team oriented, zone type of defense, rather than the man-to-man we played in the first,” Livingston...