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...Berry] is probably the best point guard I’ve ever coached, even as just a sophomore,” Delaney-Smith said. “She’s leading a team that’s still being created...and she’s just terrific in every regard...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Outlasts Northeastern, Sweeps Boston Teams | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...with her this week - is, they say, an indictment of the pending congressional health care overhaul. Much is at stake in the balloting. Coakley would provide Democrats with a critical 60th aye vote, preserving the party's filibuster-proof majority - a fact that Brown (who began the race perhaps best known for the good looks that landed him a 1982 "America's Sexiest Man" centerfold in Cosmopolitan) has emphasized throughout the campaign. Though Massachusetts has not sent a Republican to the Senate in nearly four decades, animus over the proposed bill has helped Brown erase the double-digit lead Coakley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Candidate Martha Coakley | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

Quotes About: "I can easily say she was one of the best trial lawyers I've ever seen. Certainly one of the top 5%." - Retired superior court judge Robert Barton, who during his 21 years on the bench presided over Coakley in court (Lowell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Candidate Martha Coakley | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...that Republicans "presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis" and then handed "it over to others to solve." He accused the GOP of "waxing political about fiscal responsibility" and finished his point with a dash of sarcasm: "It's a sight to see." (See the best business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recovery Insurance | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...former Deputy Prime Minister Abba Eban once said, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. This time it may be the Israelis who are letting a precious opportunity pass: the West Bank Palestinian leaders President Mahmoud Abbas and, especially, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are the best partners for peace in Israel's history. Abbas and Fayyad have been astonishingly successful at fulfilling the road-map obligations to reform their security forces, resulting in a near cessation of violence in or from the West Bank. Indeed, the most notable occurrence in the past few years was something that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Holy Land, Resetting U.S. Mideast Policy | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

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