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...With Trimble’s inside attack stifled by the Yale defense, the Crimson chose to rely instead on its outside hitters.“We were trying to push it out to the pins,” coach Jennifer Weiss said.It worked. The Crimson began to close the gap and brought the Yale lead down to 22-17 on an Alissa Flesher kill before the Bulldogs eventually pulled away to win the first game. “We had a little bit of trouble starting in general,” Mahon said.Harvard continued to adapt its strategy...
...which they believe could backfire against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and boost his militant rivals in the Islamic Hamas group, leaving the Middle East in a bigger mess. Senior Arab sources in several Middle East capitals tell TIME that they are skeptical about this conference because the Israeli-Palestinian gap remains wide and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, with less than two months to go, does not appear to have laid sufficient groundwork for the meeting's success. "A lot of homework needs to be done, and there's not much time," says an Arab source...
...Throughout the interview, the 28-year-old Sturgess—who made his feature-film debut in the movie—emphasized that “Across the Universe” is no ordinary musical, and that making it was no ordinary performing experience. BRIDGING THE GAP Making a film based on Beatles covers is a formidable task. For starters, how do you pull together an original plot from lyrics everyone has already interpreted? And how do you rearrange classic tunes without offending legions of Beatles fans? Instead of splicing studio-recorded singing into the film’s sound...
...from a wider perspective," he wrote. Mayor Adamowicz, who later admitted that he had agonized over what he would do if Grass failed to find the right words to apologize, accepted the explanation unreservedly. Walesa told TIME this week that Grass, in his view, is helping bridge the gap between generations...
...global instability and rising demand from India and China have spiked oil prices to over $80 per barrel, and governments are nationalizing major fields from Russia to Venezuela. At the same time, as offshore technology improves, oil firms can hunt in deeper, tougher waters, like the Timor Gap between Australia and East Timor. So the region has exploded with oil fever. Vietnam plans to explore in seven offshore blocks, Malaysia this summer launched the deepwater Kikeh field, and Indonesia expects production from its vast Cepu oil field to start next year. East Timor could earn at least $10 billion from...