Word: fielding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sound and fury: the Faulkner plaque on the Lars Anderson bridge. The plaque is small, bronze, weathered and nearly impossible to pick out against the brick on the bridge's northwest side; it's inscribed "to Quentin Compson, drowned in a field of honeysuckle." Cognoscenti will recognize the bridge as the supposed location of one of the novel's great tragedies...
Thankfully, undergraduates have not been left out of this windfall. College students will have the opportunity to take classes at the genomics center. This will provide a chance for undergraduates to interact directly with top researchers in the cutting-edge field of genomics...
...Bush team pounced. They relentlessly questioned the expertise of the expert witness, in which Brace wound up looking like a sort of hobbyist, able to voice his opinions only as "personal observations" based on his long experience in the field. (Or, as Bush lawyer Phil Beck put it disdainfully, "his years of travels.") And then they let him talk...
...field reads like a list of who's-who among the swimming elite. Among the notable swimmers are nine Olympic medallists including five gold medallists--Texas' s Ian Crocker, Brendan Hannan, and Erin Phenix, as well as California's Anthony Ervin and Stanford's Misty Hyman...
...keep passions from getting out of hand, police separated Bush and Gore partisans by 10 feet of sidewalk. It was as if they were in bleachers with a playing field between them. Cheerleaders with bullhorns led the chants, and spectators, some holding small children by the hand, sang out in unison. "Count Every Vote, Count Every Vote," cried Gore supporters. "How Many Times, How Many Times," replied the Bushies. Another cry erupted from the Bush camp: "Concede Again, Concede Again." Gore backers sang back, "Don't Get Snippy, Don't Get Snippy." From the Gore side: "Read My Lips...