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...paint and snaked around the Harvard big men for an easy layup.No big deal. Just 55 seconds remained and the Crimson lead was still four. All Harvard needed to do was stay strong with the ball, fend off Princeton’s desperation attempt at a steal, and then absorb the foul. If anything went wrong, the Crimson still had both timeouts as escape valves.The inbounds pass found its way to Stehle, who worked the ball to freshman point guard Drew Housman. The Tigers had three players deep in Harvard’s end of the court, so Housman took...
...Before he takes office, Harper is also trying to absorb some lessons from recent history. Insiders say he has telephoned former Prime Minister Mulroney--whose government he once accused of "running the largest deficits in Canadian history"--for advice on the pitfalls of power. One model he surely hopes to avoid: the short-lived minority government of Joe Clark, who entered power with as little experience as Harper's Tories and spent months largely out of sight of the Canadian public while learning the tricks of governance--only to be turfed out by the resurgent Liberals under Pierre Trudeau...
...with Trees In "Is Europe Due for a Big Chill" [Dec. 12], TIME mentions that climate experts have some reservations about the effects of global warming on weakening North Atlantic Ocean currents. I am surprised that they have not taken into account the speed of global deforestation. Warmer oceans absorb less atmospheric carbon dioxide, so we depend increasingly on the world's remaining vegetation to filter the air for us. Because vegetation is the only means by which carbon dioxide is converted into life-giving oxygen, we need to start seriously thinking more about controlling deforestation. We should establish...
...sitcom, Emily's Reasons Why Not, HEATHER GRAHAM plays a self-help book editor who fails to absorb the soundest relationship advice. Unlike her character, Graham has picked up a few nuggets after dating actors like Ed Burns and Heath Ledger. "If he says, 'I'm not emotionally available right now,'" says the Boogie Nights star, "listen." Somehow we think men are a bit more available when you're Rollergirl...
...help them take on Telecom Italia in that country's race for triple-play market share. The wave of wheeling and dealing clearly has risks. NTL, for example, is still hashing out the terms of its $6.6 billion merger with broadband firm Telewest - so how can it now absorb another major company so quickly? And anyone who witnessed the "synergy" mergers in technology and media in the late 1990s has good cause to be skeptical about the current surge in activity. But the traditional phone companies feel they have little choice. The loss of fixed-line revenues to mobile networks...