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...caught the hoops bug from his father Gie-Ming. Before he emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s, Gie-Ming would scour Taiwanese television for highlights of NBA games. Once in the States, he studied Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the classic Los Angeles Lakers-Boston Celtics games from the 1980s. "I cannot explain the reasons why I love basketball," says Gie-Ming, a computer engineer. "I just...
...KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR, 62-year-old Hall of Fame basketball player, announcing on Nov. 10 that he is undergoing treatment for leukemia, which was diagnosed last year...
Kurds say al-Maliki has been quietly rotating senior Kurdish officers out of army units stationed in volatile provinces, including Nineveh, and replacing them with Arabs. That's disputed by Major General Hassan Kareem Abbas, the Shi'ite commander of the Nineveh Operations Command. Kurdish officers have been replaced, the general says, but by other Kurds, a view supported privately by senior U.S. officers in Mosul...
Major General Hassan Kareem Abbas, commander of the Nineveh Operations Command, which oversees the province's Iraqi police, national police and army units, says there are several factors to blame. First of all, he says, the lack of political accord among the province's diverse population as well as tensions with the neighboring region of Kurdistan, which lays claim to Nineveh's oil-rich city of Kirkuk, have fostered an environment of political uncertainty. (See 10 ideas changing the world right...
...point, four-assist performance is just further proof. OVER AND OUT Things could have ended very differently for the Crimson had senior guard Evan Harris not fouled out with four minutes to play. Without his defensive presence, Harvard struggled to hold the Princeton big men in check, as Kareem Maddox, a tall forward shooting 83 percent from the line, got four easy ones off fouls from freshman Peter Boehm, who was forced to fill the void left by Harris. “Evan fouling out didn’t help us, we’re not deep...