Word: touche
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...equally good,” senior skipper Clay Johnson said.Another round robin eliminated Tufts, the Coast Guard Academy, Roger Williams and Connecticut College, leaving four teams—Yale, Dartmouth, Boston College and Harvard—to battle for just three nationals spots.“It was very touch and go as to who was going to qualify,” senior skipper Matt Knowles said. “It was up in the air going into the last round as to who would get the qualifying spots.”When it was all said and done, Dartmouth...
...Morrison’s “Gloria” and soul classic “Land of a Thousand Dances” for her own revolutionary purposes. Those two songs were no more than 15 years old when she reinvented them. But now, Smith has lost all touch with the present. Like her fellow Green Party yes-men (and yes-women), she lives in a frozen world, and she’s happily ignorant of what’s around...
...attack to Iran. Iran never claimed the attack, the suicide bomber was never named, and if it weren't for a still classified lucky break, we would have had no evidence the Iranians were behind it. It is unlikely in the intervening years Iran lost its touch. It certainly isn't clumsy enough to leave serial numbers or factory markings on weapons going to the Sunni insurgency...
Rocker Sheryl Crow and An Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David sparred over climate change with Karl Rove at a D.C. dinner. At one point, they claim, the Bush adviser snapped, "Don't touch me." Shocked at the unthinkable rebuff, the pair wrote on THE HUFFINGTON POST, "How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow?" SCORE...
...barges. Now Sergio Palleroni, an architecture professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has launched a project that uses wood salvaged from homes destroyed by the hurricane to build new furniture for local residents that could also be sold in boutiques around the country. "The furniture - you touch it and you feel New Orleans," says Palleroni, whose first three prototypes - a minimalist pew, table, and set of nesting boxes - will be on display starting May 4 at the "Design for the Other 90%" exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City...