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General John Jumper was just starting his first day as the Air Force's top officer when a hijacked airliner slammed into the Pentagon, shaking the floor beneath him. Unlike most Americans, who had no way to strike back at terror, Jumper did something about it. His missile-firing Predator drones--the first weapons of their kind--were deployed to try to kill Osama bin Laden...
...After Iverson torched the Lakers for 48 points in the first game of this year's NBA finals, dealing L.A. their only playoff loss, Laker Robert Horry wondered aloud just how anyone was supposed to defend the little guy: "He can get the jumper anytime he wants, so all you can do is hope he's not hitting it. If he drives, you have to hope the help comes quick enough. There's a lot of hope involved...
Harvard high jumper Dora Gyorffy ’01-’02 achieved a longtime goal last Thursday when she cleared the previously elusive height of two meters at Hungarian Nationals in Nyiregyhaza. The personal-best jump moved Gyorffy into third place on the season’s world performance list and into the top spot on the all-time Hungarian performance list, eclipsing the previous national record of 1.98 meters...
...senior Dora Gyorffy have earned spots on their respective national teams and are eligible to compete in the World University Games. Taylor placed third in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles at the U.S. Nationals in late June, while Gyorffy is the top-ranked high jumper in Hungary...
...team in two years to beat the Quakers. Clemente did not have his usual shooting touch the following night against Princeton, but that didn't stop him from scoring when it counted. He took the game into his own hands in the final minute, knocking down a turnaround jumper with 7.4 seconds left to give Harvard a one-point lead. But Kyle Wente's one-handed three-pointer at the buzzer saved the game for Princeton, which went on to win the Ivy title...