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...disciplined than usual," says Anthony. "Pick your spots to be aggressive." When playing an explosive team like the Lakers, you're going to have to make sacrifices. What does Boston need more, a few loose balls for Rajon Rondo, or the brakes on Kobe Bryant? If they want to hoist the championship trophy, it's the latter...
...little mistakes and winning individual matchups on the ice. By the close of the season, Donato’s squad had transformed itself into a threat to win the conference by generating what looked to be unstoppable momentum. Though Princeton ultimately ended Harvard’s quest to hoist the conference trophy and kept the Crimson from the NCAA tournament, Harvard finished the season with the tenacity to compete in high-pressure games. The Crimson’s appearance in the Beanpot Finals brought Harvard back to the big game for the first time in a decade...
...unit flag on the newly seized Reichstag building on the night of April 30, but the moment had gone unrecorded. On May 2, Khaldei set about staging a reenactment. He recruited a decorated l8-year-old private named Aleksei Kovalev and two comrades to clamber on the parapets to hoist his flag. Perched above them with his Russian-made Leica, he squeezed off 36 frames. The picture later was to be doctored and even colored for various propaganda versions...
...Washington is silent about the systematic repression of women and minorities permitted in the name of religion in the Kingdom. If any Arab leader today deserves to be called a democrat, it's Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, a humble economist by training who bravely continues to hoist the banner of the 2005 Cedar Revolution against domestic as well as foreign opponents. Bush won't have time for a stop off in Beirut, however. It could have been a powerfully symbolic show of support for Arab democrats; but Bush will be too busy after departing Israel meeting with oil sheikhs...
...person seated behind me: When you hoist yourself up by my seat back, that seat back becomes a catapult, and I become its payload...