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...What causes a shooter to almost instantaneously gain or lose his jump shot might be a slight mechanical flaw, but basketball tradition maintains that the outside marksman is often his own worst enemy...
...Abbas wants Olmert to return an estimated $500 million in Palestinian tax money, lift some of the 400 Israeli roadblocks in the West Bank and halt the expansion of Jewish settlements in the disputed territories. Otherwise, says one presidential aide, "how can we persuade the Palestinians that they can gain anything from peace with the Israelis?" with reporting by Scott Macleod/Cairo, Jamil Hamad/Ramallah and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem
...greatest enigma in college basketball is something seemingly too simple: win on the road.Yet in any league, for any team, it is the hardest thing to do.To become a road warrior, gain road fortitude, or excel in any other cliché one can choose is a challenge that brings even the best of programs to its knees.For Harvard, the team has dubbed it “road toughness.” And despite the disappointments of the weekend past, punctuated by its hard-fought 75-63 loss to Penn on Saturday night, the Crimson still believes it can transfer this...
...Radcliffe’s obscurantism does not alone sufficiently call into question Faust’s capacity to bridge the academic breadth of Harvard University. Radcliffe, one might argue, could have been her benefice of choice, to gain much-needed administrative experience while biding her time for a prestigious university presidency to open...
...real magic trick is Hill's, and the transformation he works on his main character. Coyne begins the book as a cold, despicable misanthrope, but as we learn about the personal past that made him that way - he had an abusive father - we gain sympathy for him. Coyne changes, gaining humor in desperation, warming to the girlfriend he took for granted, and reconnecting with the music that he has all but abandoned. When confronted with real inhumanity, as opposed to his own affected coldness, Coyne softens unexpectedly, and his emotions wake up. We start to like him and sympathize with...