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...have thus been continually interrupted. The big man has never been able to completely incorporate himself into the flow of the season, as each injury has necessitated a period of reintegration.The continual breaks and fractures have no doubt been caused at least partially by the physical strictures of height, and developing his 7’0 frame through weight training has been a critical process for Cusworth. He focused on building strength intently in the off-season, in the hopes of avoiding the frustration of once again watching his teammates while sitting on the bench in street clothes.The frustration, brought...
...unearthed a belt buckle, bullet casings, bits of leather. The unknown soldier kept coming into Carlyon's mind for weeks. "What was he doing when the shell hit?" he writes. "Who wept for him?" Near Pozi?res, whose capture in 1916 cost 8,000 Australian lives, Carlyon stood on a height known as the Windmill. From there, "you could almost sketch in what a German would have seen on the first day of the Somme," he says, hands sweeping an imaginary horizon. "The observation balloons, a great arc of gray smoke where the British were attacking on this very long front...
...DIED. Pieter Willem "P.W." Botha, 90, hawkish South African politician who led the country during the height of the antiapartheid struggle in the 1980s; at his home in Wilderness, South Africa. As Prime Minister and then President, Botha made reforms at the edges of the apartheid system but refused to release political prisoners such as Nelson Mandela or countenance majority black rule. In 1986, with violence spiraling, he declared a state of emergency. Three years later he was forced to step down by his own party. In a recent interview, Botha said he had no regrets about...
...that you aren’t handed everyday,” Bassett says. “I would have been crazy to not take it.”KATHRYN FARNIAt 5’10”, Kathryn Farni is one of the tallest players on the team and yet height is not this Minnesotan’s only asset. As a two-time All-State selection in high school, Farni proved that she can play. She graduated from Hopkins High School with the school record in career goals—and she’s a defender.Harvard is going...
...verdict came nearly 13 months after the trial had begun in a high-security courtroom in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. The eight men were tried for an incident that, until the trial began, most Iraqis had long forgotten. On July 8, 1982, at the height of the Iraq-Iran war, Saddam's motorcade was attacked by gunmen in the village of Dujail, an hour's drive north of Baghdad. During the trial, Saddam recollected the attempted assassination, saying, "Bullets were in front of me and here and there. [But] God wanted to save...