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...lineup that got us into overtime,” Amaker said. “We go with the lineups that are clicking for us and matching up well for us.”Senior guard Drew Housman, who started the game alongside Miller and scored five points, was also absent during Harvard’s stretch run and played just 14 total minutes.OVERTURNEDWhile Barnett’s 30 points jumped off the stat sheet, another eye-popping statistic—turnovers—may have sealed the overtime contest in favor of the visitors. The Crimson committed 17 turnovers...
...Senior guard Drew Housman, who started the game alongside Miller and scored five points, was also absent during Harvard’s stretch run and played just 14 total minutes...
...crisis of fatherlessness. At the root of the instability of the Black ghettos is the fact that there is not a functional patrilineal system that governs the communal life by physically maintaining order as occurs in other working class neighborhoods, regardless of race or ethnicity. When the fathers are absent, as a political fact of life in communities, disorder and chaos follow. The lack of male role models perpetuate the problem and leave women and children emotionally and physically vulnerable. For anyone who bothers to walk the unforgiving streets of the poorest black neighborhoods in any mid-sized or large...
...Ifill has interviewed virtually every African-American politician of note, tracking a generational shift away from leaders like Jesse Jackson who were schooled in the civil rights movement toward Ivy Leaguers like Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. And while scoundrels like Detroit's disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick are almost absent, there's much here to justify her assertion that "the bench is deep" with rising political stars--and her role as their enthusiastic chronicler...
...being too harsh on his administration and talking about trying to put the squeeze on a children's hospital and on the Tribune, which was looking to sell the Cubs with state help. But does mere talk constitute a crime? "Genson can argue it was [just] talk, and absent any act, there's no crime," says Andrea Lyon, a professor of law at DePaul University and former head of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "It's a First Amendment issue...