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...have to slow down the ball,” sophomore point guard Michael Beal said. “That was our fatal flaw against Penn. That was our fatal flaw against Brown...
...Breaking Windows? Already scrambling to close a security flaw in its latest operating-system release, Microsoft was investigating how some 15% of its Windows 2000 source code was leaked to file-swapping Internet sites, making it potentially vulnerable to hackers and rivals...
...Scotty’s only flaw is that he’s small,” Princeton coach John Thompson III said. “He’s a tough player that makes plays when he has to. We put the ball in his hands at the end of the game there figuring he’d make a play, and eventually...
...tennis really changed so much that it can no longer accommodate players of all shapes and styles? "Lleyton's a more complete player than Chang was," argues John Alexander, who suspects weariness and injuries were what hurt the Australian, along with a playing style that became too conservative - a flaw Hewitt seems to have corrected. "People tend to talk about power - about serving and forehands - and they're the fashionable things to talk about," says Hewitt's childhood coach, Peter Smith. "I always felt that Lleyton had qualities that others didn't notice, subtle qualities they couldn't measure...
...writes with an obvious tenderness toward his heroine--in an introductory note, he discusses his decades-long obsession with her--but that doesn't stop him from treating her roughly, and her tale is in the end bittersweet at best. He delivers it in a bluff, plainspoken style; one flaw in the telling is that the dialogue has a touch of that musty quality that often inhabits historical fiction. Yet Grunwald has a strong sense of his historical period--he genuinely intuits the mirror logic of the Renaissance religious mind--and his story has an emotional power that transcends...