Word: arcing
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...League.” And, as opposing teams learned last year, you can never forget about junior sharpshooter Niki Finelli, whose big numbers from the three-point line proved indispensable during Harvard’s title run last year. She went 6-for-7 from beyond the arc against Penn last season in an 87-74 win.“A lot of people have the potential to have a breakout season and even without one [would] be a candidate for Player of the Year,” Rollins says. “But it’s going...
That's where we come in. The need to find--or create--order, arc and purpose in life and death is the root of art and religion. The difference between studying an animal's survival and writing her a poem is the difference between asking how and asking why. The latter may seem odd, but it's as much an adaptive response as a meerkat's serial mating. We are social creatures in a beautiful, cruel universe. We use whatever tools we can to survive...
...Korea. “Yet only today did I realize how ignorant I was to the conditions in North Korea,” said Sakong, who is the political chair of the Korean Association, which helped organize the event. Speaking for close to four hours, Kim traced the personal arc of his life—his professorship in North Korea, his tutoring, and his stint as a visiting professor in Russia. His accounts drew both laughs and gasps from the crowd. He recounted one occasion when he was tutoring Kim Il Sung’s nephew?...
...wait, it gets worse. As the computerized Armada heave into sight, Elizabeth, dolled up in Joan of Arc drag - shining armor, waving a big sword - takes it into her head to rally her troops, drawn up on the shore, impotently waiting for the naval engagement to begin. She is given a noble rallying speech to sing out - her St. Crispin's Day moment - but, putting this as gently as possible, Nicholson and Hirst are not exactly the Bard of Avon, and Kapur is not exactly Laurence Olivier when it comes to staging this emptily rhetorical, entirely fictional moment. The director...
With the books now closed on the 3rd quarter race for campaign cash, it is not too early to forsee an arc of the unfolding race for the Republican nomination...