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...Angeles native, cut his sunny Southern California summer short to work on his game. “I was in L.A. in June and July, working with a couple of NBA guys and a couple of college guys,” Harris says. “Then, in August, I was working with [strength and conditioning] Coach Fitzgerald almost every day.”And, whether it was Amaker’s influence or not, high-quality basketball players were coming in to work out with Crimson players in an effort to improve the squad. “We worked...
...rally was designed to increase international pressure on the Chinese government and encourage it to divest from companies that may play a role in funding the genocide. The 2008 Olympics, which will be held in Beijing in August, has increased scrutiny of the Chinese government’s human rights record...
...Brown is set to meet U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Downing Street sources insist that Washington is in agreement with the rapid draw down, but some U.S. critics have questioned Britain's record in Iraq. General Jack Keane, a Pentagon envoy to Iraq, told the BBC in August that "the Brits have never had enough troops to truly protect the population...
...press horde that will dog its every step until it wraps up its two-day Paris visit on Tuesday. Led by magistrate Scott Baker, the 11 British jurors were retracing the final movements by Diana and companion Dodi Al Fayed ahead of their fatal car crash in August 1997. The current investigation comes at the behest of Dodi's father, Mohammed Al Fayed, who insists his son and Diana were killed in a plot by the royal family and secret services to prevent the couple's impending marriage. Those charges have been rebuffed by an official French investigation...
Despite the surrounding hype, chances are neither the British inquiry nor their eyeballing of the Parisian venues Diana sped through before the crash will shed any new light on what happened that August night ten years ago. "We know what caused her death: it's been catalogued in minute detail by investigators in both countries," says one slightly disgusted French justice official when asked about this week's visit to Paris by the jurors. "Case closed - move on." He goes on: "The official logic is by giving them the visual framework and time-span they all fit into, [the jurors...