Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's guards were simply better than Santa Clara's backcourt, which was without the services of All-West Coast Conference point guard Brian Jones. Although senior point guard Tim Hill was just 2-of-7 from the floor and scored five points, he still contributed seven assists as Beam and Clemente used screens and Hill's penetration to create open three-point shots...
...Democratic Republic of Congo. In Kenya, CIA and embassy security officers believed the biggest threat to Americans was common crime. But the risk of terror lurked below the surface. Nairobi had become a transit stop for Iranian and Sudanese intelligence agents. Along the country's Indian Ocean coast were Kenyan veterans of the Afghan war that bin Laden agents had been recruiting...
CATHY BOOTH, our West Coast Bureau Chief and a 14-year TIME veteran, tells us that the warmth actor Tom Hanks often projects on the screen has a genuine source. "He's incredibly charming and very intelligent," she says. "He's able to shift effortlessly from Jerry Lewis imitations to why the D-day invasion was such a mess." Booth and Los Angeles correspondent Jeffrey Ressner, a regular on the Hollywood star patrol who met with the actor on the set of his new film The Green Mile, say Hanks is polite even while firmly refusing to answer questions about...
...Beverly Hills native and the oldest daughter of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, the filmmaker attended Wellesley before entering a career as an East Coast journalist and, eventually, a famously bad marriage to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. It is not surprising, given Ephron's history, that her heroines typically have a passionate connection to words. Ryan was a writer in When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless, and is a bookstore owner in Ephron's new e-mail love story. "Romantic comedies are always about words," Ephron reminds. "People hate each other because of what they say or love each other...
...took Hitler to win Lucky his freedom. After Pearl Harbor, German U-boats off the U.S. coast were sinking merchant ships regularly. U.S. intelligence suspected they were aided by spies or Nazi sympathizers. Then the Normandie, a French liner being retrofitted into a troop ship, sank in the Hudson River, sparking fears of sabotage...