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...wild and sloppy first half. Penn jumped out to a 12-6 lead five minutes in as it constantly beat the Crimson up the floor for baskets. Harvard answered that with a 12-0 run in which it forced four turnovers and watched Eggleston blow an easy two-hand dunk attempt. But the Quakers stayed strong and after Lin missed a lay-up with his team up 27-21 and under three minutes left, they closed out with a 10-0 run, despite another missed dunk, this time by Lewis...
...Karzai, for his part, appears inclined to align himself with growing numbers of Afghans who are hostile to the Western military presence in his country by, if not quite biting, then at least snapping at the hand that feeds and protects him. He opened parliament on Jan. 23 with a speech that included a blistering attack on the conduct of the U.S.-led war, complaining that Washington and its allies are undermining the Afghan government by ignoring its authority, and accusing them of patronizing warlords and overlooking the corruption and waste in their own aid programs. Earlier this month, Karzai...
...like, 'Why wouldn't you go to a rural area?'" he says. Baker-Trinity is an indefatigable local booster. "They're talking about making my whole town wireless!" he says enthusiastically. Equally smitten are his parishioners, like Howard Steinmetz. After decades working his farm--most of them minus a hand lost to a field chopper in 1959--Steinmetz is finally auctioning off the land. Selling, he says, "is tough." But his religious life is supporting him. "Everybody was pretty excited to get a young one," he says, indicating Baker-Trinity...
Running, running, with BlackBerry, cell phone and laptop in hand, members of America's professional class are in a perpetual race with time. "There is a palpable sense out there that many of us have lost control of our lives," says the author, a prominent sociologist at New York University. Conley is a master chronicler of our attention-challenged age, tallying up the social and personal costs of always striving to be somewhere else. He is admirably frank about his own frenetic life: "It's all enough to drive one bonkers," he admits. "That rocking chair in my grandparents' house...
...fact, Blagojevich had so completely alienated the court of impeachment that Lieut. Governor Patrick Quinn arrived in Springfield Thursday morning with a Bible in hand and a state supreme court justice ready to swear him in. There were reports that Blagojevich's personal possessions at the governor's mansion were already boxed up for the movers when he delivered his rambling speech...