Word: underhanded
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...Americans were wisely swagger free, though the beach-volleyball duo Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs celebrated their bronze medal as if they had just liberated France. In fact, their win came over an Australian team whose top player reinjured her shoulder during the match, forcing her to serve underhand. But the most egregious celebration of the Games was by Swedish triple jumper Christian Olsson, whose oblivious victory lap was so lengthy that it interrupted the medal ceremony for the 1,500-m wheelchair race. Thanks for taking the pressure off, Christian. --With reporting by Jeff Chu, Sean Gregory, Alice Park...
More controversial than Hutton's verdict on the BBC was his conclusion that the government had no "dishonorable, underhand or duplicitous" plot to reveal Kelly's name to reporters once Kelly had told his bosses at the Ministry of Defense that he had met Gilligan but had not said all the things the reporter had broadcast. Yet the diary of Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, shows that he was obsessed with outing Kelly, sure that this would "f___ Gilligan." Hutton focused instead on the worry of some officials that if they concealed that a civil servant had come forward...
...having extracted a simple morality tale from Gilligan's sloppy reporting, Hutton seemed determined to exclude complexity from the rest of his findings. He gave Blair's government the benefit of every doubt, the BBC none at all. He concluded that the government had no "dishonorable, underhand or duplicitous" plot to get Kelly's name to reporters once he confessed to his bosses that he had met Gilligan but denied saying all the things Gilligan was apparently attributing to him. Blair chaired a meeting at which the naming strategy was discussed; Campbell's diaries show the adviser was desperate...
...handle of the bat and my stomach churned over the words of a lonely, scary thought: it’s all riding on you. I swallowed once and then once more, and for a second I felt like a real athlete again. But then the pitch came in underhand, and very, very slow, and the spirit ran out of me. I realized, with a sigh, that you can only get so excited about intramural softball, and then I swung?...
DIED. DAN QUISENBERRY, 45, relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals whose wit was as devastating as his sinkerball; of brain cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. Confounding batters with his underhand pitches, Quisenberry was a three-time All-Star who led the American League in saves from 1980 through...