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...Harvard’s going to have somebody out there to make more plays. Not much you can do, you gotta cover them all. They’re talented offensively.” With that much inexperience lining up, Murphy was forced to turn back the pages of his playbook to find a simpler plan of attack. A team used to draw plays and runs up the gut—with the occasional option to keep things interesting—suddenly threw reverses and end arounds at a Big Red defense that had nearly no film to work...
Pittsburgh's playbook still has some familiar features, but it is far more diverse. They still make stuff here, albeit with 8,400 fewer workers over 10 years. But commodity metals have been abandoned in favor of higher-value alloys like titanium. Importantly, the metal companies here now serve global industries that have been going flat out, such as power generation, energy, mining and transportation...
Football, sanity, and sex are the three biggest players on the field in Matthew Quick’s “The Silver Linings Playbook.” Quick tells his tale from the perspective of Pat Peoples, a 34-year-old man who has just been released from a mental institution—or “the bad place,” as he calls it. Written in the style of an extended, journal-like letter to his ex-wife, Pat documents his obsession with her, his slow recovery from mental illness, and the importance of the Philadelphia...
...career leader in touchdowns, receptions, and all-purpose yards, Richards is certainly no stranger to success and stardom on the gridiron. This coming Saturday, he will finally get his chance to show what he can do. ADAM CHRISSISWhile many incoming football players will spend their rookie season learning the playbook and working out in the weight room, freshman wide-out Adam Chrissis will instead be gearing up as a starter for the Crimson. The Pittsburgh, Penn. native and graduate of Upper St. Clair, Chrissis (6’0’’, 195) was a two-way starter...
...Communist] Party has the right control policy because of all it has done," says Dean Cheng, China analyst with the CNA Corp., a U.S.-based think tank. Says Joan Johnson-Freese, a space expert at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.: "The Chinese have read the Apollo playbook. They understand everything the U.S. got from its lunar program...