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...winning bid from the left baseline hit off the side of the backboard and caromed right into the hands of forward Jason Hartford. Left uncontested beneath the basket, Hartford put back a shot that hovered on top of the rim for a split second before falling through the hoop, giving Cornell (9-11, 4-2 Ivy) a 79-77 lead with 2.4 seconds to play.After inbounding the ball from under the Cornell basket, the best Harvard could manage was a futile mid-court heave from junior guard Ko Yada. As the shot fell harmlessly short and the final buzzer sounded...
...primary defense besides Brown; the other seven squads use a man-to-man as their base. With Goffredo and the driving ability of freshman point guard Drew Housman keeping those man-to-man defenses from collapsing, Stehle and Cusworth might finally be able to operate around the hoop with the level of freedom they previously could only dream...
...Jaap De Hoop Scheffer says he has no illusions about the complexity of the task facing Nato in Afghanistan. But the aim of its mission, he adds, is quite simple: finish what was started. "If we think we can leave Afghanistan on its own now after all that we have invested, we are making a fatal mistake," Nato's Secretary-General told Time last week. "Afghanistan was an exporter of terrorism, and if we do not want it to become one again, we had better take what we do there very seriously." Who could argue with the Dutchman, installed...
...Hoop Dreams. Crumb. Michael Moore's Roger & Me. Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line. Michael Apted's 7 Up series. These are some of the finest documentary features in recent decades, and they share one distinction: none received an Oscar, or even a nomination, for Best Documentary. An outcry over the exclusion of films like these and charges of cronyism within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' selection committee led to rules changes in 2001. So this year's list will be a lot sharper...
...childhood] reservation, basketball has taken over from hockey, because it's basic and cheap?all you need is a hoop and a ball," says Jungen. So when he spotted a pair of the black, white and red sneakers in a Calgary sporting-goods store, the penny dropped: "I thought, holy s___, that's exactly like the Coastal [Indian] color scheme," he says. Prototypes is a tribute, in part, to the "pockets of the third world in Canada ... where artifacts for the native-art industry are produced." Guess that's something to ponder when you're browsing through the airport souvenir...