Word: twins
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...started with realistic hopes for Harvard’s first league title and ended with the unyielding reality of the Ivy hoops hierarchy.With the league’s top two returning scorers and rebounders in captain Matt Stehle and junior center Brian Cusworth—Harvard’s twin frontcourt anchors—the Crimson was picked to finish second behind Penn in the league’s preseason poll. That ranking only fueled the high expectations, as Harvard was thought to be facing perhaps its best opportunity to unseat powerhouses Penn and Princeton and claim the school?...
That is how Lauren comes to be living in "the hotel" now that her parents are both away. It's actually her friend Callie's house, and they call their bedroom the hotel because it has twin beds side by side. Callie's mother Cecilia, whose husband is also in the gulf, offered to take Lauren in so she could finish eighth grade with the rest of her class, before going off to spend the summer with her grandparents in Colorado. There is no telling when Mom and Dad will be home, but this way Lauren at least gets...
...twin attacks sparked an unprecedented public outcry, led by ordinary Sicilian women who hung white sheets from their balcony railings bearing a single word: basta (enough). Strolling the colorful streets of Palermo today, one sees a new outbreak of draped sheets that simply read: rita for president. The message driving the challenger's campaign couldn't be clearer. "We need to break with the past," Borsellino told Time. "We have a system based on pure political patronage that makes people think they have to go ask 'Please' for something that should be their right." She believes there is a fundamental...
...remove my jacket. That turns out to be a good idea. The first game I try--Miyamoto walks me through it, which to a gamer is the rough equivalent of getting to trade bons mots with Jerry Seinfeld--is a Warioware title (Wario being Mario's shorter, fatter evil twin). It consists of dozens of manic five-second mini games in a row. They're geared to the Japanese gaming sensibility, which has a zany, cartoonish, game-show bent. In one hot minute, I use the controller to swat a fly, do squat-thrusts as a weight lifter, turn...
Steady, unremarkable success was lacking from the program. Injury and inconsistency, the twin horns of seasons gone awry, killed momentum where there would be plenty...