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Still, the U.S. has to meet Zardari halfway. "They talk about their own war, their demands, asking for more to be done," says Zaffar Abbas, senior editor at Dawn, a well-respected Pakistani daily. "The question being raised is, Why should we become a part of it?" As the Marriott bombing shows, this is their fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

...Vatican officials. But rather than a pro forma holiday wish of good tidings, the pontiff delivered his latest heavy-hitting discourse on everything from ecology to ecumenism, with carefully chosen citations from past Popes and even Friedrich Nietzsche. The topic that most grabbed press attention came about halfway through the 30-minute long address: transsexuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Christmas Condemnation of Transsexuals | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

...Fleming's largely underappreciated work in Gone With the Wind, which he took over from George Cukor halfway through shooting: "Most accounts of Gone With the Wind focus on everything [producer David O.] Selznick did before Fleming arrived ... but rewrites continued during filming, and as [F. Scott] Fitzgerald wrote of Fleming for a 1939 lecture tour by [Sheilah] Graham: '[He was a] fine adaptable mechanism - which in the morning could direct the action of two thousand extras, and in the afternoon decided on the colors of the buttons of Clark Gable's coat and the shadows on Vivien Leigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Victor Fleming Was Hollywood's Hidden Genius | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...hosts with a three-pointer with 40 seconds to play to give his team a 62-61 lead it would not relinquish. Free throws turned out to be the deciding factor in a game that remained close until the Crimson (4-5) grabbed an 11-point lead about halfway through the second half. The Owls (4-5) were able to use a 29-14 free throw attempt advantage on the game to knock down points from the charity stripe and run past Harvard in the last minute of the contest. Rice did not even need excellent shooting from the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEB UPDATE: Long-range shooting can't bail out Crimson | 12/21/2008 | See Source »

...answered for the hosts with a three pointer with 40 seconds to play to give his team a 62-61 lead it would not relinquish. Free throws turned out to be the deciding factor in a game that remained close until the Crimson grabbed an 11-point lead about halfway through the second half. The Owls were had a 29-14 free-throw attempt advantage on the game. Rice did not even need excellent shooting from the line to mount its comeback—it only made 62 percent of its free throw shots for the game?...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Free Throws Down Men's Basketball in Final Minute against Rice | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

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