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Hartford junior Mary Jane Besselink came away with more than the ball during the scramble underneath the Harvard women's basketball team's basket in the closing seconds of Wednesday's Hartford-Harvard game...
Besselink emerged with the winning basket...
...Chile are thus depriving their lower classes a freedom essential to their own well-being and the well-being of their nations' economies as a whole. While Chile's corporatist capitalism allowed a flood of consumers goods to enter the country, putting all its eggs in the big business basket made Chile extremely vulnerable to the recession of the early 1980s...
Good sportswriters have the talent to take the insignificant and make it universal, to take the minute and make it allegorical. These reporters can describe a last second buzzer-beating basket in a cellar-dweller basketball game in such terms that we are convinced that this one, perhaps lucky, shot is evidence of the triumph of the human spirit. And they also have the talent to depict the sophomoric tendencies and playing style of a Bill Laimbeer in such a way that we're absolutely sure that these minor flaws are embodiments of the devil incarnate...
Florida is a little too cool and rainy, on average, for the Superbug's taste, and the infestation there was never as serious. But when the fly arrived in Southern California, probably in a fruit basket or vegetable shipment, it felt right at home in the dry weather and summer temperatures that can reach 46 degreesC (115 degreesF). Because the insect is happy eating some 500 varieties of plants (one of the only vegetables it doesn't seem to like is asparagus), it found the fertile Imperial Valley to be a veritable smorgasbord...