Word: wrench
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...last year’s triple overtime thriller, this season’s edition will be essential in the fight to the finish.Although the Crimson needs help to win the Ivy League championship after last weekend’s loss to Penn, it has the chance to wrench the title out of its perennial rival’s paws with a victory and an improbable Dartmouth win over Princeton. The Bulldogs can solidify their own share with a victory.“To us the Ivy championship is on the line, we need to beat Harvard to get to that...
Where does representative democracy end and populism begin? The question has been posed high and low in France for the last couple of days since S?gol?ne Royal, the clear frontrunner to be the Socialist candidate in next spring's presidential election, proposed tossing a new wrench in the already dysfunctional French mode of governance. Her idea is to establish "citizens' juries," drawn by random lot, to assess the work of representatives between elections. Such "popular surveillance" of deputies and other elected officials, she said, would help bridge France's chronic gulf between the elected and the electorate...
...last year's harvest that he's now frantic to sell at any price to make room for this year's crop. Charles, 58, stands in his courtyard, surrounded by clucking hens, and struggles for words to describe his predicament. "It's never happened before," he says, gripping a wrench. "This year's a complete catastrophe." The contrasting fortunes of both men are two sides of the same story: a long-awaited - and long-overdue - shakeout in the cosseted world of French winemaking. France is the superpower of the wine world, the largest producer and, measured by per capita consumption...
...from last year's harvest that Charles is frantic to sell at any price to make room for this year's crop. Charles, 58, stands in his courtyard, surrounded by clucking hens, and struggles for words to describe his predicament. "It's never happened before," he says, gripping a wrench. "This year's a complete catastrophe...
...Spectator, meanwhile, leads today's paper with a critical new development: Video shot by Univision, the Spanish-language network, clearly shows a man on stage kicking a protestor. That throws a bit of a wrench into the current outcry, since there has yet to emerge any visual documentation of kicking or punching on the part of protestors. Comments the Blue and White blog: "You don't have to speak the Spanish for footage of Minutemen kicking protesters to change how you look at things." Of course, the brawl was still provoked by the protestors who stormed the stage. The kicker...