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...know from personal experience how painful an encounter with the heavy hand of the Ad Board can be. It was everything that your editorial described and more--in particular, it's knack for fascist interrogation techniques and for coercing friends to incriminate friends...
Snowden's partner under the basket, senior Chris Grancio, is a steady scorer and rebounder and has a knack for burning unsuspecting opponents from three-point land. Grancio leads the Crimson in three-pointers made--not too bad for a 6-8 post player...
...extraordinary knack for being in the right place at the right time. Two years after he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, Ho witnessed the birth of the AIDS epidemic. He remembers how baffling it seemed...
...diplomats say he has never strayed from Washington's instructions and has a knack for finding a warm spot in even the surliest of despots. He always reads the history and psychological profile of his potential adversary. He knew that one of Kerubino's daughters had just died of measles, so when talks with the chieftain became heated, Richardson took a break and strolled over to a nearby hut to visit one of Kerubino's other children, who also had measles. "It touched him," Richardson says...
...traction in an icy-slick world, aided by his one remaining client (a testy Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his sole employee (Renee Zellweger, fierce and mousy). Blending romance and realism, writer-director Cameron Crowe achieves the kind of confident, endearing comedy you would've sworn Hollywood had lost the knack of making...