Word: jockeying
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...cheating and spying have run rampant. So, too, have actual cheating and spying. One player wrote to us fingering another House with signing up pre-frosh to bolster their ranks. “Councils of War”, which have sprung up in each House to plot strategy, jockey constantly to keep tabs on their opponents’ plans, with the help of dummy accounts, stolen passwords, and secretive informants. Open email lists and the Web site’s built-in private chat rooms have been dismissed as unsafe and prone to other House’s prying eyes...
...seduction conjured up a brand-new way to be,” she recounts. Darling provides a laundry list of the sundry men she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman year: “a progressive-rock disk jockey in Richmond, Virginia; the faux scion of a Polish count; a marijuana-runner on the North Carolina coast.” Enter debonair White House correspondent Lee A. Lescaze. They meet for drinks. He compares her to a character in a Ford Maddox Ford novel and she?...
...more dangerous, this just doesn’t make sense.” Mehigan, the City Hall spokeswoman, says that clubs with musical performances can seek prior approval from City Hall to have audiences under 21 after 11 p.m.Even so, Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07, a disc jockey for WHRB’s Record Hospital and outgoing president for the Harvard College Alliance of Rock and Roll, says she feels that these restrictive measures have a significant negative impact on the music scene and other communities that frequent 18-plus venues in Boston. “City officials...
...Tony Blair submitted to his weekly inquisition by MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, his opponents sought to highlight splits opening within Labour ranks as its pols jockey for position in anticipation of the Prime Minister's looming departure. But it was a deeper gulf that yawned as Blair used the occasion to shift Britain's Iraq strategy, announcing a planned reduction in troop levels by 1,500 over the coming months from some 7,100 at present, with the aim of pushing overall numbers below 5,000 by the end of the year. Answering unspoken accusations that...
...Friday evening. Harvard had just dropped a 5-1 decision to the Bulldogs, and as fans filed out of Ingalls Rink, Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 could only keep returning to the word “disappointing.” As league playoffs approach and teams jockey for positions, Harvard had a golden opportunity to solidify its chances for first-round home-ice advantage with a win over Yale, which had gone 1-8 and been outscored 35-20 in its last nine games. And though Jimmy Fraser gave the Crimson...