Word: breaking
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...Lowdown: The new year is upon us. Break out the optimism, the resolutions and the thinly-veiled self-help books. There are some, like Henry Alford's How To Live that hide their chicken-soup soul within the well-structured tale of a fruitful personal journey. Then there are those such as Rich Like Them, whose vigorous attempts to shake off the label ("It's not what you think of as a traditional self-help book...I chose instead to look at the context of these lives, to tell people's stories"), just end up making the author sound slightly...
...taken down in overtime by the Blue Devils.After six and a half minutes of play, Harvard found itself up 15-14 on the Trojans.USC responded with a 23-5 run in the middle of the first half, helping it to take a 19-point lead into the break.“When you play against a team like USC, you have to take them away from their comfort zone and hope they miss shots,” Delaney-Smith said. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the Trojans didn’t miss much. USC shot 57 percent from the field...
...worked out for us, we executed pretty well.”Leading for most of the game, the Crimson dug deep to get away from the Broncos three times when the visitors made it close in the second half. Trailing 37-36 early on after the break, Housman faked and drove to the hoop for a three-point play, giving the team a lead it would not relinquish. Lin copied Housman with his own three-point play on the next possession. Captain guard Andrew Pusar then put back a miss to make it 44-37.Miller put back his own miss...
...getting there.”Kessler made a season-high 32 saves, including 16 in the third period alone, to preserve the lead. Clemis finished with 16 saves.The win, Harvard’s first against a ranked team this season, sends the team home for winter break with a restored sense of confidence.“I think this was huge for our team. We’ve been having kind of a rough start here,” Buesser said. “I think this is really going to set a tone for the new year...
...Barak over how to end the campaign is nothing compared with that confronting President Abbas. He is facing a wave of anger sweeping across the West Bank, even within his Fatah organization, over his response to the Gaza attacks. Many Fatah leaders are demanding that Abbas not only break off the largely symbolic peace talks he continues to hold with the Israelis, but also that he end security cooperation between his forces and those of the Israelis. Abbas can't afford to do that, however. Israel's Gaza campaign has actually strengthened Hamas politically, even in the West Bank, while...