Word: closers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their senior night, coming off a poor loss last night, it just feels great to get a win, especially to end your season with a win.”Harris and point guard Housman each put in one of the finest games of the year in their curtain closer, while Pusar the captain hurt his ankle in the opening minute and could only play three minutes. Harris went 34 minutes and pulled down a team-high seven rebounds along with six points and three steals. When he fouled out with under a minute left, he received a great reception from...
...Both meetings between these two teams could not have been any closer. Although one game ended on a clutch free-throw and the other on a desperation heave, each game was actually decided by which team made the hustle plays...
...passed through and the sights, sounds and messages that he experienced, he is part of a much bigger tale, a violent drama that has rumbled over much of the subcontinent. The role has done him no good. Qasab may have escaped Faridkot and Rawalpindi. But he's no closer to the other side of the fence than when he started...
...almost timid voice, Morrison read from her most recent novel “A Mercy,” which explores the condition of slavery set in the 1680s and powerfully raises some of the most profound questions about human rights in our own time; thus, it was the appropriate closer for the evening.Quietly chilling evocations and depictions of women were painfully authentic and for all their beauty, threatened to deprive all present of any glimpse of hope had it not been followed with Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky’s “Night Music: Voice in the Leaves...
...better at reintegration. States, now under orders to systematically review barriers to ex-cons' finding housing and jobs, are partnering with an array of local organizations that have long dealt with newly released felons. New York, for instance, is opening a number of specialized re-entry units closer to home, where inmates spend the last three to four months of their sentences meeting with state and community social-service agencies to help line up housing, jobs and information on drug-rehab programs and reconnect with their families and neighborhoods...