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...hard-knock story. To reach an élite level, Arenas has fought through personal and professional rejections, most recently his exclusion from the Team U.S.A. roster that played (below expectations) in the World Championship last summer. It's an omission that befuddles Smith: "He's doing things only the greatest players in the league have done...
Senior Audrey Duboc pulled out a dramatic come-from-behind win and the third-ranked Harvard women’s squash team rallied to knock off rival No. 4 Trinity, 5-4, at the Murr Center last night...
...only the loose dust. Then I lay down anyhow and closed my eyes. The naked bulb hanging from the center of the cell was directly above my head. Though dim, it irritated me. I looked around the cell but could not see a light switch anywhere. ''Please!'' I called, knocking on the door. ''I can't find the light switch.'' ! ''We don't switch off the light at night. In future, when you want to speak to the guards, just say, 'Report.' Don't knock on the door. Don't say anything else.'' I lay down again and turned...
...center Andrew Naeve got open down low for what looked like an easy two points. But as the big man went up for the dunk, two Harvard defenders converged to contest the shot, and Harris got a hand on the ball to knock it away. Harris then beat Naeve on the offensive end, scoring over the taller player with a lefty hook shot. On the next possession, Housman stole the ball from guard Louis Dale and fed a streaking Harris for another big two-handed dunk, which gave Harvard a 63-58 lead and brought the crowd to a frenzy...
...jewelry belonged to Mexican Businessman Hugo Salinas y Rochas, 74, and his wife Marie-Isabelle. Answering a knock on their hotel-room door, the couple were grabbed by two young men carrying pistols, who handcuffed them to bedposts, taped their mouths and then made off with the jewelry, which had just been brought up from the hotel safe...