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...live in a city, you look at them like they're basket cases," says Amy Liu, deputy director of the Brooking Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. "But Obama doesn't talk about urban policy in the traditional sense of distressed neighborhoods and crime. He talks about the assets he sees and about leveraging those assets." When Obama spoke to the U.S. Conference of Mayors last June, he argued that there was a "new metropolitan reality" in which "strong cities are the building blocks of strong regions." Leaving cities to muddle through on their own while focusing on suburbs and exurbs...
...good news for the Crimson was that star Big Green guard Koren Schram shot just 1-for-10 for two points in the first half, with Berry allowing her few good looks at the basket...
...spread the floor well,” Eagles coach Al Skinner said. “We didn’t do a good job of staying in front of him. He’s very capable of getting his shoulder around our guys and getting penetration to the basket. When we did help, he was able to get rid of it and deliver the ball. In the second half, he just dominated the game for them, taking care of the offense...
Miller returned the favor, stealing an alley-oop pass attempt to start a fast-break that ended with a three-point play for Lin. Miller’s other basket in the half came as he followed his own miss shot for the put back...
...failed to dislodge Fidel Castro and his government and instead succeeded in alienating the rest of the hemisphere. Congratulations! The Castro regime can say it stood up to a half-century of yanqui aggression while proving that quality universal education and health care are doable. But the price - a basket-case economy and a bleak human-rights record - overshadowed those achievements. ?Felicidades...