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Harvard was getting good chances both in the first and early in the second period, but it wasn’t able to convert on rebounds. In fact, the Crimson would not need a single rebound as all four of its goals were worthy of the highlight reels...
Bearing the brunt of the nasty, possibly racist whispers was the 52-year-old Pakistani-born Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, the son of a Muslim convert to Christianity and a man praised for his intellect. The slurs alleged he had bought his first bishopric, lied about his age, misrepresented his academic qualifications and - horrors - was even once involved with the Catholic Church. None turned out to be true except the last charge. Nazir-Ali has admitted to being a practicing Catholic while at St. Paul's School and during a year at St. Patrick's College in Karachi...
...slump in the '60s. These days the Roubaisiens who have jobs - unemployment is 14% - tend to work in retail and advertising rather than in factories. Figuring that tourism could be an option for a place that had run short of them, in 1990 Gaudichon persuaded the city to convert the derelict swimming pool into a home for Roubaix's unseen treasures. They included a unique hoard of textile patterns and samples dating back to 1839, as well as an art collection that had been closed to public view since 1940. Gaudichon, named curator of the collection in 1989, reckoned...
Klatsky’s pivotal missed free throws were the only ones that Penn did not convert all night. The Quakers finished an impressive 20-for-22 from the line...
...popularity and their own inability to move pet legislation through Congress, smelled a chance to link Bush and his party to the richest tale of greed, self-dealing and political access since junk-bond king Michael Milken was jailed in 1991. That's just what the President, hoping to convert momentum from his war on terrorism to the war on recession, desperately wants to avoid. The fallout will swing on the following key questions...