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...professor from Wichita, Kan., wrote, “Mean Miranda, here’s a lump of coal. Mean Mitch, here’s one for you, too, but this one has a jagged edge I hope you snag your finger...
...requires the exact opposite. It demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed decisions. That takes time, the careful accumulation of the habits of citizenship. Bush's "gift" formulation sends exactly the wrong message; it leads people to believe that all they need is a purple finger and life will get better. The President seems a victim of that same delusion: he seems to believe that we can get away with promoting democracy through glorious rhetoric without doing the slow, expensive, heavy lifting of nation building. It is easy to talk about the need for decent education...
...group of mostly retired officers on contract to read news stories that contain classified material and try to uncover their sources. This may be the toughest spook work. Over the years, the unit, nicknamed "the leak chasers" by some agency hands, has been able to finger only a few talkers. But it has an enthusiastic?and active?backer in Goss. He told TIME in June that he had made dozens of leak-investigation referrals. "Virtually every day I can pick up a paper and find somebody who is an anonymous source," he said. "That is willful. And it seems...
...second half. The first foul left Harris wincing and nursing a sore knee, but he eventually stepped to the line and sank 1-of-2 free throws. Morris’ flagrant foul came with just 0:15 left in the game after Harris scored on a pretty finger roll in the lane. Harris responded well to the physical play, tallying 10 points and going 4-of-7 from the charity stripe...
...sank 7-of-11 first half three-pointers, including a pair of back-to-back treys from guard Dez Willingham to give SMU a 48-21 advantage with 0:40 remaining in the opening frame. While the Mustangs showcased their athleticism with a bevy of alley-oops, finger rolls, and dunks, the Crimson played dead for the majority of the first half. Harvard was just 6-of-24 from the floor in the opening half and went 9:56 without a field goal—a stretch during which a 12-8 SMU lead swelled to a 40-9 advantage...