Word: pulling
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...joined at the hip,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith says.Rollins and Tay were equally united on the basketball court last season, emerging as the Crimson’s two outstanding rookie contributors a season ago. Tay, the flashy passer who thrives off penetration and a pull-up jumpshot, stymied slower defenses in the second half of the Ivy season. And beginning with a dominant opening performance against Dartmouth, Rollins emerged as one of the league’s finest post players in just her freshman season.Rollins finished the season as the Crimson’s leading scorer...
...until the team’s last tilt, a victory over Columbia in which he scored 22, they were generally successful. This year will be no different—but Goffredo is more prepared for the challenge.“I worked a lot this summer on my pull-up game and getting to the basket off the dribble,” Goffredo says. “I worked a lot on getting my own shot off, and we got a lot of good plays in to make [this happen].”And Housman will be at the center...
...good comedy is a little like madlibs. Knowing what to do with the empty spaces makes all the difference. It’s not just what actors can pull out of a script that makes a comedy funny; often, it’s what a cast can generate on its own—pure creative humor—that makes a play worth seeing...
Museum officials, who are lobbying to have the tax provision withdrawn, say they're already getting the cold shoulder from potential donors. "There have been donors in negotiations who pull back immediately," says James K. Ballinger, director of the Phoenix Art Museum, which obtained two Georgia O'Keeffe paintings through fractional giving. Lerner says he's advising clients to hold off on donations and has pulled the plug on a $20 million painting. "I don't go through a long explanation. I just tell the client, 'You can't do this any longer,'" he says. "They say, 'Fine...
...called for the United States to “truly honor democracy and leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.” Conceding that the situation in Iraq isn’t “a bed of roses,” Motley responded that “to pull out all U.S. troops now would be to embolden our enemy,” eliciting doubtful laughs from his opposition. “Iraq was a model for stability...before the first U.S. war,” countered Rajaraman. Republican Club Member-at-Large Meghan E. Grizzle...