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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...
...Pussycats as they get caught up in success. The movie’s main target of attack is mass consumerism (boo Abercrombie!), but it also gets in smart jibes on boybands (the show’s spoof boyband, Du Jour, has a hit single named “Backdoor Lover”), “Behind the Music” and other aspects of ’00s pop culture. It’s great campy fun (Alan Cumming and Parker Posey obviously relish their villain roles) with a catchy soundtrack, underpinned by an admirable powerful-grrl ethic. Rachael Leigh...
...wake of the weekend's amazing action, players and coaches talked less about the particulars of zone defense and backdoor cuts and instead spoke in general terms of what it meant to live through the most interesting weekend in the Ivy League in quite some time...
Head Coach John Thompson III--son of the famous former Georgetown coach--has not deviated from the half-court, backdoor style of play that made the Tigers famous under former coaches Carmody and Pete Carill. Thompson was an assistant under both coaches...