Word: downtowners
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...enthusiast). But today I can't help feeling that the balance of urban cachet back home along I-65 has changed to a certain, positive extent. Indianapolis may never be Chicago, but it's certainly no longer the underachieving city I once left for Chicago, as its surprisingly vibrant downtown shows today. Indianapolis is, in fact, a showcase of its own - one that displays how robustly American cities can still reinvent themselves. If it takes a football game to make the world realize that my hometown deserves to be something more than second fiddle to the Second City...
...like to run and so do we. When we saw that while getting ready throughout the week, we thought this would be a game where we could really show our ability.” Scott led the way in the first half, hitting all three of his shots from downtown and scoring all 13 of his points in the opening frame. But Scott was just one of many Columbia players who was a threat from long range. Seemingly every Lion on the floor could hit a three-pointer, giving Columbia many options against Harvard’s defense...
...Yubari underscores the reason that Japan's faith in a more prosperous future has been shaken. "Yubari citizens are filled with anxiety about the future, and so are a lot of Japanese people," says Sasaya, the snow piling outside his small shop in Yubari's shuttered downtown. "It makes me wonder where Japan is headed." The answer could lie in another Newtonian law: what goes up, must come down...
...charity stripe, going 4-of-4. Goffredo led the team’s scorers with 20 points. Having struggled to contribute substantially from behind the arc during the past several games, Goffredo sank 3-of-4 treys in the second half for a 4-of-8 overall performance from downtown. “The shot felt good, and I knew those looks were there,” Goffredo said. “I just got some open opportunities in the second half, which I haven’t really been getting in the last couple of games—just...
...Downtown Mogadishu is a tropical Stalingrad, a bullet-raked, mortar-pounded, artillery-shelled canvas of Roman arches and Italian colonnades that that testifies to man's capacity for creation and also for destruction. Not the sort of place, in other words, that you'd expect to find a $30 million telecommunications concern doing a roaring trade in an ultra-competitive market. Yet, as Mustafa Sheikh, deputy managing director of Telcom Somalia says, the absence of a functioning government for 16 years has been a boon for private enterprise. His firm is one of three in Somalia that provides fixed-line...