Word: mix
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...Campbell's a great player and a senior," Murphy said. "As clutch as he's been, we had to mix it up and confuse them all day long. In the end we did what we had to do to be successful...
...love affair with Puritanism. True, the original group of sober, brown-hatted colonists have long since slipped into the darkness of New England cemeteries and Barker Center seminars, their memories preserved only through The Crucible and the grimly authoritarian spire of Mather House. But the Puritan impulse, with its mix of overheated moralism and apocalyptic fervor, is alive and well in American politics. And the most puzzling of these latter-day Puritans emerge every election season, toting charts and graphs and public policy initiatives, all intended to prove what their more theologically minded forebears always believed: namely, that America...
...nonprofit venture perfectly blends Brown's unusual mix of skills. At 27, she left a career handling multimillion-dollar paintings at Christie's auction house to get a master's degree in social work. Five years later, after working as a therapist, Brown founded Room to Grow by organizing collection drives and persuading baby-product makers like Crayola and Fisher-Price to donate goods. "Asking for donations, convincing someone of your point of view--I learned all that at Christie's," says Brown, 34. She also learned how to think big: she's planning an October benefit at Christie...
...While Bush had initially proposed that two of the debates should take place on talk shows rather than in the more traditional formats he eventually agreed to, they will still provide the candidates plenty of opportunity to mix it up. Next week, for instance, each question will be followed by three answers from each side, going back and forth, with one of the exchanges lasting six minutes. That's an eternity by presidential-debate standards. The candidates will be situated more informally, seated at a table for their meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Oct. 11, and finally, will take...
Left in their places is an engaging mix of tested veterans and eager freshmen. Six freshmen, to be exact, which outnumbers any other class on the team...