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...first set, Clayton succeeded in breaking back twice and forced Borta into a tiebreak, which Clayton seized. In the second, the tables were turned, as Borta stormed back to take the set in another close tiebreaker. The match was a toss-up at that point, but a persistent Clayton wore down his opponent with sharp angled shots and dominant rallies in the third set for a 7-6, 6-7, 6-3 win. “This match was the best Ivy League match that I have ever seen,” assistant coach Andrew Rueb...
...before the financial crisis turned dire, may go down as one of the great blunders of presidential-campaign history. "Senator McCain, what economy are you talking about?" Barack Obama exclaimed hours after the words escaped his opponent's mouth. The mocking TV ads soon followed, and as the weeks wore on and financial jitters gave way to near collapse and certain recession, McCain's statement began to evoke unsettling memories of Herbert Hoover, who said similar things in the early 1930s...
...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...
...really ask from a pair of pants. Now, let me clarify that these aren’t the days of JNCOs—days when we pre-teen girls would do anything to have a drop of Backstreet Boy sweat fall on us at a concert, when we wore baggy jeans, belly-baring t-shirts, and had Tamogatchis hanging from our pockets. Wide-leg trousers have been walking down runways for years, but only recently have a sizeable number of ready-wear models been showing up in stores. When worn with a pair of heels, these pants offer an exaggerated...
...Socratic law professor called him out. “No soldier dies in vain.” It is patently stupid to argue about jewelry, so stupid that Obama now wears a flag pin out of resignation while McCain, whose detractors never really noticed what pin he wore...