Word: backdoors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cserny’s absence on the court, Monti found success by hitting sophomore forward Tricia Tubridy on a backdoor cut, but thereafter the Harvard offense struggled with turnovers. When Cserny re-entered the game, Harvard trailed 23-16. The Crimson had managed to overcome deficits due to Cserny’s foul trouble in past games, but a seven-point deficit to North Carolina was too much to overcome...
...think we weren’t able to set our offenses as much as we would have liked,” she said. “We’ve always been working on backdoor cuts but those require impeccable timing and some real trust and we didn’t react well to their changes...
Shortly thereafter, Seanor fed Feaster with a gorgeous backdoor pass that the All-American converted into a lay-up to pull Harvard to within one. Following a missed shot by the Cardinal, Miller came back and hit an off-balance runner from the foul line to put the Crimson in front, 66-65, with 1:32 to play...
Certainly the familiarity paid off this weekend. When the Tigers decided to go to a small lineup, and stick with their slow, boring, pass-heavy, backdoor offense, Sullivan did the same, going with four guards and a small forward for most of the second half. And while Sullivan did not deploy his bench at all—he calls playing Princeton a “learned experience”—he managed to use the clock and substitution well so that Harvard did outplay Princeton in the second half, despite coming up just short...
...despite this early progress, terrorism experts warn, it will be difficult to follow the flow of bin Laden's money and harder still to turn off the spigot. His money is believed to be scattered among as many as 55 countries. It appears to move surreptitiously, often through backdoor channels. And much of it is cloaked in the respectability of legitimate-looking businesses and charities. Al-Qaeda appears to move much of its money through bin Laden's extensive portfolio of agriculture, construction and investment businesses. Investigators call it "reverse money laundering," because the funds start out clean...