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...lapse there at the end…we definitely shouldn’t have pressed out as much on the last shot.” With many defenders out of position, Columbia’s Gabrielle Geronimos rolled the crease and hit a bounce shot to put the Lions ahead for good, securing their first conference win and extending Harvard’s losing streak to five games.“We went out there and we played hard, but the past few weeks, the little things have been costing us the game,” McMahon said...
...here, you poor a - hole" to a man who refused to let the president shake his hand during a book fair appearance. Just hours before the now notorious Wednesday lunch, Sarkozy delivered a monumental verbal lashing to a trio of cabinet members for publicly jockeying for advancement ahead of a shake-up. Astonishingly, that demonstration of presidential butt-kicking was then recounted by the government's spokesman...
...military parlance, he's "shaping the battlefield" for the fights ahead with Congress, which gets the final word on military spending and doesn't take kindly to economic engines in its home districts and states being summarily axed. Key programs on his chopping block include the Air Force's $350 million-a-copy F-22 Fighter, the Army's $160 billion Future Combat Systems - a network of ground and air vehicles - and the Navy's DDG 1000 Destroyer. To prevail, Gates is employing what those in uniform call TTPs - tactics, techniques and procedures...
...symbolizes a moment when many Chinese felt a burst of relative political freedom and openness, which partly explains their fondness for the former Party leader. During his tenure from 1980 to 1987, Hu went ahead to rehabilitate the victims branded as ideological traitors during the Cultural Revolution. He admitted mistakes in China's policies on Tibet. His overall liberal outlook, at least more so than his political contemporaries, fostered an atmosphere that enabled new ideas and thinking to emerge. During that time, it was not uncommon for Chinese students to, for the first time, read about western political treatises, thoughts...
Just a day after he was released on bail, Aziz, wearing his trademark spectacles and graying beard, returned to the Red Mosque, the site of a weeklong siege in 2007 between the mosque's seminary students and the Pakistani military, to deliver a sermon ahead of Friday prayers. Thousands of worshipers flocked to the centrally located mosque, spilling into the surrounding streets and kneeling on makeshift prayer rugs while Aziz's voice boomed out over loudspeakers. He told the story of Moses' struggle against the Pharaoh of Egypt to allow his people to practice their religion. Moses, considered by Muslims...