Word: evening
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...TRUTH TELLERS SELDOM WIN Most voters don't like to hear unpleasant truths. And God forbid you ever imply that voters are lazy and don't understand the issues. If you insist on telling the truth, at least do it with a smile. Even the press prefers this. Happy warriors almost always trump truth tellers. Which leads to Rule...
Stone said she probably won't keep consistent lines throughout the course of the season or even individual games. Instead, she expects Botterill, Ingram and the seniors to play several positions and do a lot of double-shifting to maximize their scoring opportunities...
While the losses will not reflect on Harvard, the mere fact that the Crimson has played so many tough teams will work to its advantage. And even in the midst of the team's current losing streak--its longest slump since 1989--the Crimson still has been playing well. Both of Harvard's league losses, as well as its losses to Penn State and Hartford, came on the road...
...much more contact with her than with many a teacher who presided over a packed lecture hall. And in certain ways, I got to know her much better than my own thesis adviser, who had to juggle his class preparation, graduate students and writing books. (I even knew when she came down with the flu because it meant she was a day or two late with her comments on a paper I'd submitted.) But while the course was cerebrally engaging, socially it was a dud. Discussions, a series of time-delayed postings on message boards, were stilted and there...
...looks back a couple of years, the prevailing conventional wisdom about Gore was not about lies, deceits, exaggerations and embellishments. It was how wooden he was. Robo-Veep. Gore even made fun of it, often making a self-deprecating quip that he was so boring that his Secret Service code name was Al Gore. Yes, there had been the Buddhist temple incident and the White House fund-raising phone calls, but those seemed to be viewed as technical breaches of obscure laws rather than examples of outright mendacity. His overall image was of a boringly earnest Boy Scout. His Rose...