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...worked out for us, we executed pretty well.”Leading for most of the game, the Crimson dug down 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 traditional three-point play, giving the team a lead it would not give up again. Lin copied Housman with his own three-point play on the next possession, then captain guard Andrew Pusar put back a miss to make it 44-37.Miller put back...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Team Effort Paces Men's Hoops Win | 1/3/2009 | See Source »

...cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go," Mark Twain declared. Though the boom was partly lit by the cigar's affordability, they soon become a must-have accessory for debonair gentlemen - men like King Edward VII, who, upon assuming the British throne in 1901, famously announced a break with the smoke-free policies of his mother Queen Victoria by uttering the words: "Gentlemen, you may smoke." Ulysses S. Grant's cigar habit proved his undoing, saddling him with the throat cancer that killed him. And Freud was a chimney: Patients on his couch had to endure not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cigar | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

Palin, Sarah • yet another descendant of is given a ridiculous name •yet another patently false statement - "Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time" (really, they're doing all that during the New Year's break?) - is insistently made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...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 events. 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. But Abbas can't afford to do that: Israel's Gaza campaign has actually strengthened Hamas politically, even in the West Bank, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is the Gaza Ground War? | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...worst junction in the West Bank. And he says, "When I look around me 360 degrees, nobody loves me. Settlers, Kahanes, rabbis, mullahs, Hamas, Palestinians, you name it - they all hate me. And he told me, "Here I was sitting on a corner one day; it was my break time, and I was drinking coffee with a friend of mine, and out of the valley climbed an old Arab. He was very bent forward and frail, and walked slowly to us and said 'Here is my ID.' And we told him, you don't have to give us your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy? | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

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