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Harvard has just four guys in its froncourt rotation and one of them, junior center Brian Sigafoos, continues to struggle to avoid foul trouble. Sigafoos’ size makes him an important cog for Harvard on both of the ends of the floor, but on Saturday, he had just two points—and four fouls—in 11 minutes...
...Jazeera and others report that the Northern Alliance is advancing on the Taliban at Mazar-i-Sharif, and inflicting heavy casualties. Pakistan's Frontier Post believe the Alliance is getting an opportunity to redeem its recent bad rap from the media. Military realities have made it a central cog of the U.S. war effort, the paper argues, and stepped up air support has raised the possibility of the Alliance capturing Mazar before the onset of winter. That "could provide the U.S. forces with a bridgehead or land corridor from Uzbekistan to ferry troops and supplies into Afghanistan, an advantage Pakistan...
Before you sell your soul in order to become a cog in the capitalist machine, you might consider strapping on your six-shooter and carving out your own interdiciplinary realm in a still-fertile fielda of science. But you had better hurry, as we humans feel it is our sacred duty to explore and conquer all that is unknown in what might be considered a scientific Manifest Destiny. So if you want to get yourself your own little homestead, well you had better hitch up the wagon before The West becomes domesticated, and riddled with post offices...
Adding former Bull Horace Grant and Isaiah Rider to the team, Lakers fans were optimistic for another smooth run to the NBA Finals. Jackson had successfully tamed Dennis Rodman, transforming the former Detroit bad-boy into another cog in his well-oiled triangle offense that yielded six championships to the Bulls in the 1990s. Surely, he could handle Rider and tap the tremendous talent beneath his troubled past...
...Still vivid to him were the two girls he found in a field still strapped into their seats. "They were clasped tightly together, their fingers crossed, and a look of horror on their faces," he says. Like others in Lockerbie, Parr muses that al-Megrahi must be "a small cog in a big wheel," but he is equally proud of the Scottish justice system and what he sees as a fair trial. He feels it is time to move...