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...write a paper, try out for an activity, or play a game of beer pong on a Tuesday night, you open yourself up to the possibility of not succeeding. Maybe you get smacked with the devilish B-/C+ on that paper, or forget your lines at the play tryout and feel like a doofus in front of some stylish actor-types, or worse, lose so bad at pong that you have to take a naked lap through Mather courtyard.Bad news bears, right? Well I’m here to say this. Maybe not bad news bears. Maybe okay news bears...
...like an auto executive putting the best spin on a dressing-down by the Obama Administration, "but it is far too early to say that there is any struggle to get there." Translation: the version of Brüno shown to the MPAA was like an out-of-town tryout for a Broadway show or a novel's first draft - except that the script doctors, or editors, are outside agents with the power to tell Baron Cohen what he can leave in and what...
...racontress on Jack Paar's late-night couch. Les Crane, 74, filled ABC's 11:30 slot against Johnny Carson with an issues show, contentiously thrusting his boom mike into the audience. Four decades later, the folksier Tony Snow, 53, hosted a Fox show as an out-of-town tryout for his job as White House Press Secretary. Jack Narz, 85, hosted the "fixed" game show Dotto; got rehabilitated and hosted Concentration. A "so long, folks" to three top sportscasters: ABC's Wide World of Sports' Jim McKay, 86, and warmly remembered baseball announcers Skip Caray, 68, of the Atlanta...
...joined by 58 of the nation’s top women’s ice hockey players, including fellow Harvard alumnae Julie Chu ’06-’07 and Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04. The training camp will serve as a tryout and training session for the U.S. Women’s National Team and U.S. Women’s National Under-18 Team, both of which participate in world championships in the early part...
...demanding tryout process that began in 2006, Stone has coached the U.S. Women’s Under-22 team and won a gold medal with the U-18 team at the World Championships this past January. Her next and final test will be to lead Team USA at the Four Nations Cup starting next Tuesday in Lake Placid...