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...adage that an old schoolteacher of his had used: There is no such thing as African time, the idea that things in Africa run slowly and behind schedule just because it's Africa. "There is no store in the world that sells an African watch or an African clock. We all use the same clock," he told me. "And yet Africans use African time as an excuse. We have to be serious...
...there is another force driving the Bush team to pivot: the ticking of the clock. "It's very hard to do things at the very, very end," said Wendy Sherman, who coordinated North Korean policy in the Clinton State Department. "If the President wants to end eight years and have people say, 'You lost Iraq, you lost Iran, you lost North Korea, and you made the Middle East worse,' it's not a good moment in history. And so the pragmatists are predominant at the moment. This is their window...
...follow, as the fans who had passes to all the games surely got their money worth. The next game saw UMBC guard Jay Greene play his heart out, as he scored a career-high 22 points, including the game winning three-point play with 1:03 left on the clock, giving his team a 64-61 lead over Maine. The fifth-seeded Retrievers would win 70-61, prompting hearty high-fives from Greene and Mike Housman when the buzzer sounded and a very large smile on the face of UMBC coach Randy Monroe when he entered the press room.The next...
...fourth score. Freshmen Ariel Delgado took a turn between the pipes and tallied 11 saves. BUCKNELL 6, HARVARD 5 Down 5-4 with less than three minutes to play, Harvard got the ball in front of the Bucknell cage. The Crimson patiently used up most of the shot clock before Liao saw an opportunity that she liked. Liao fired a quick pass to freshman Roxanne Pinto, who was waiting on the weak side with an open look at the net and easily blasted home the tying goal. The Bison, however, had the last word. Less than a minute later...
...itself. A WORLD OF PURE IMAGINATIONThe exhibit is set in two different rooms, each filled with items that look like they might be found in a Twilight Zone version of an average grocery or toy store.Although at first glance the objects appear ordinary, nothing is what it seems. A clock measures circumference rather than time (Per Kirkeby’s “Flux Clock,” 1969); a musical score reads only, “Keep walking intently” (Takehisa Kosugi’s “Theatre Music,” 1964). But this subversion...