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...completely destroyed the Crimson’s zone defense in the first half, swinging the ball to find the open shooter before Harvard could react and using cross-court skip passes to exploit the holes on the perimeter. When Harvard did close out in time to prevent yet another dagger from beyond the arc, Dartmouth’s guards fired an entry pass to the low-post for forward Sydney Scott...
Caravaggio was “mercurial, hot-tempered, violent,” according to his contemporaries. Eventually, he was also a convicted murderer, and spent the last four years of his life in exile outrunning the charges: “he slept fully clothed, with his dagger by his side,” and wandered across an Italy in full bloom, “painting almost constantly...
...After Mubarak's speech at Abdeen Palace, a man who told me he was a teacher discreetly slipped me a tiny piece of paper and then walked back into the crowd, like a spy in a cloak and dagger operation. "Pass this message," it read in scribbled red ink. "There is no democracy in Egypt and there is no dignity for the human being in this country. Those people inside the rally own Egypt, but those outside are the powerless. Signed, An Egyptian Citizen." Such clandestine protests are no longer all Mubarak has to contend with, however. Even his very...
Critics have charged in the past that despite the proven value of open-source information, the government has tended to give more prominence to reports gained through cloak-and-dagger efforts. One glaring example: the CIA failed in 1998 to predict a nuclear test in India, even though the country's Prime Minister had campaigned on a platform promising a robust atomic-weapons program...
...ancestors often kept in special beds in their descendants' huts. But now many of the slit drums and skull cradles are empty, for new European head-hunters have been prowling the river regions, ethnic art dealers armed with dollars and euros more deadly to native culture than any dagger. "These items are going to private homes," says p.n.g. National Museum director Soroi Eoe, the man responsible for thwarting the theft of cultural artifacts. "They are being lost not just to Papua New Guinea, but to the world. Under the law, these human remains are a prohibited export...