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...cost them at least $100,000 to date. And, after losing yesterday, Jackson indicated that he plans to appeal. In Decatur, that $100,000 could have been used to pay the annual salaries of two additional teachers, update textbooks, purchase 100 new computers for classrooms, or maybe even lay the foundation for that hypothetical after-school program. Thanks to Jackson, it is now in the coffers of attorneys...
Fumbled passes and poor decisions translated into twelve second-half points for Albany. With 13:31 remaining in the game, Harvard freshman forward Sam Winter committed his second turnover in as many possessions, leading to an easy lay-up by Albany forward Will Brand. The basket capped a 12-3 run by the Great Danes and narrowed the score...
...security and with the fact that India released convicted anti-Indian terrorists after negotiations with the hijackers of Indian Airlines Flight IC 814. Then other U.N.-member nations joined in, angered by the precedent India set by caving. So Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Monday tried to lay the blame on arch-nemesis Pakistan, saying the Pakistani government trained the hijackers and is now harboring them. But like every move India's made since the hijacking, the accusations backfired, and now both the domestic press and foreign media are decrying Vajpayee's accusations as unfounded...
...know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before...
...nothing to do with illusions or misdirections. An assistant once described the Wizard at work, "displaying cunning in the way he neutralizes or intensifies electromagnets, applying strong or weak currents, and commands either negative or positive directional currents to do his bidding." But behind his arcane dexterity lay Edison's exhaustive research and his tenacious unwillingness to quit tinkering until a technical challenge had been met. "Genius," he famously remarked, "is about 2% inspiration and 98% perspiration." Or again, as he said in his autobiography, "There is no substitute for hard work...