Word: sluggishness
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...worst half of basketball in my 27 years,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said after the game. “Princeton was laughing at us.” One can give various technical reasons for the Crimson’s atrocious opening half—sluggish rotations and adjustments on defense, rushed shots on offense, or failing to make the extra pass. It is not as easy to explain, however, why Harvard re-emerged from its locker room with a confident swagger, or why every shot during its halftime warm-ups fell cleanly into the goal. Whatever...
...French dailies traditionally publish on all holidays except the May 1 labor day. But Libération editors explained that sluggish sales on days off don't offset the cost of printing the cash-strapped paper. Rival publications reacted not with smug guffaws, but with more of the same. Conservative daily Le Figaro now says it will also suspend publication on three French holidays. That follows the earlier lead of financial dailies Les Echos and La Tribune to sit out national holidays - a sous-pinching habit to which Catholic daily La Croix and its communist opposite L'Humanité have...
...dislodge Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom several presidential administrations—beginning in the 1960s—have tried unsuccessfully to shake from power. The sanctions may have actually had the opposite of their intended effect politically, allowing Castro to blame the U.S. for Cuba’s sluggish economic development. As disagreeable as Castro’s actions toward America may have been, an embargo rooted in personal enmity against this single political leader is no longer a practical foreign policy...
...George Mason is consistently a very strong team,” Weintraub said. “They have a very strong schedule, so it doesn’t reflect how good they are, but we know they are well rounded, so we can’t be sluggish. But if we come out strong and play Harvard volleyball, I think we have a chance...
...lost]. But once they won, we still fought hard.”In the doubles, a lackluster Harvard fell to a bullish Yale. The No. 3 combination of junior Michael Hayes and freshman Alistair Felton recorded the Crimson’s sole victory with an 8-4 win.After a sluggish start, Harvard responded in the best way possible—winning five of six singles matches. At No. 1, Clayton clawed back to victory after dropping the first set to the Bulldog’s Jeff Dawson, turning it around in a third set victory...