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...decide to call off our search. Perhaps we should have followed the lead of Nippon Television's Norihisa Kabaya, whom we had run into earlier that morning. He was patrolling a boardwalk near the black sand of Hac Sa beach, video camera rolling while his translator waved a blown-up photograph of the smiling Kim Jong Nam. "Have you seen this man?" the translator asked us. We have, but only in pictures...
...Evan Harris banked home a layup with eight tenths of a second remaining in the game to give the Harvard men’s basketball team a stunning 65-64 win over Cornell at Lavietes Pavilion. Just 24 hours earlier, the Crimson (10-10, 3-3 Ivy) had been blown out by Columbia, but on this night, the game was close throughout and it would be Harvard that made the final play. After Big Red guard Louis Dale made one of two free throws with 8.6 seconds left to give his team a 64-63 lead...
...Harvard’s help defense was severely lacking—Yale players were repeatedly able to get the ball down low, and when they shook their defenders, as happened on numerous occasions, there was no one else there to defend against easy baskets. “Guys get blown by on a closeout—we work in practice all the time on the next person stepping up and being there, but I don’t think we were there,” Cusworth said. “It was a lot of individual mindsets?...
...everyone agrees with this upbeat assessment, of course, and the debate about the extent to which the world has decoupled from the U.S. rages on. Critically, many forecasts for the U.S. predict weaker growth in 2007 but not the ultimate test of full-blown recession. Indeed, judging by some of the latest data that shows rising U.S. wages and exports, the worst may already be over. The International Monetary Fund recently increased its prediction for global GDP growth in 2007 to 4.9% from 4.7%. If that turns out to be correct, this year will be the fourth...
...strategy appears to have missed what many Middle East analysts long ago concluded: that Hamas is now an intractable part of the Palestinian body politic that represents close to half of the population, and cannot simply be wished or blown away. For any U.S. peace plans that are predicated on giving it a knockout blow, the group's mass support - to borrow a phrase from Al Gore - is an inconvenient truth...