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...unheralded players. Freshman Jeremy Lin saw significant minutes at guard in his first collegiate game, chipping in four steals and a huge driving layup that put Harvard up one late. Reserve forward Brad Unger, a junior, finished with 10 points by hitting four of his five shots, none bigger than a layup with 31 seconds left that gave Harvard a five-point cushion...
...world's games, basketball is starting to get a little interest and a little traction," he insists. "So we have to be respectful and realize it's going to be small steps up." Given the NBA's global track record, its Indian steps could end up looking like Garnett. Bigger, and quicker, than you think...
...intelligence from bad. Think tanks, intelligence contractors and data miners might want to start looking for other clients. Still, one of the accusations that will be leveled at Gates is that he exaggerated the Soviet threat during the Reagan Administration. He cooked the books so Reagan could justify a bigger defense budget, or so it is said. This will be a hard one to prove. Soviet assessments were always an imprecise art. Anyhow, it was the entire CIA that missed the collapse of the Soviet Union, and not just Gates. The point is that no intelligence assessment Gates...
...achieved pop-culture status, his stern countenance and parrying of press questions bringing him a peculiar kind of Washington fame in those scary weeks following 9/11. Yet it was the pair of wars launched in the wake of those terror strikes that, over time, highlighted on a far bigger stage his short-sighted and subordinate-ruffling demeanor. The cracks in his management acumen began showing as the insurgency surged in Iraq in late 2003, and widened when the heinous photographs of the abuse at Abu Ghraib exploded in the spring...
...expect to play a bit but that will all be determined by how each one of us performs,” Kessler adds. “Whoever rises to the challenge will wind up playing in the end.”And both have an eye on the bigger picture.“Basically what you’re doing is preparing for your team to win a national championship,” Martin says.Now that would be a position Martin has never been in before.—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...