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...three-pointer by Merchant and a lay-up by Winter stopped the Mercer rally and secured the Crimson victory. The closest Mercer came again was 80-74, as the Crimson finished the game with...
...after declaring his book The Satanic Verses disrespectful to the Koran. The author was forced into hiding for nine years, and the mini-series was doomed. The Indian government deemed it too risky to be filmed in Bombay; Sri Lanka gave permission, then changed its mind. The project lay dormant until Rushdie was approached by the RSC. They'd seen director Supple's 1998 production of another Rushdie work, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, at the Royal National Theatre, and were keen to bring the two men together again. Supple, who worked on the stage adaptation with Rushdie...
...These numbers are going to get repeated all weekend long, so we might as well get them out of the way: The Packers are 13-0 all-time in home playoff games, including 11-0 at Lambeau Field. So not many expect the Pack to lay an egg, like it did against the Jets last week, losing not only home-field advantage throughout the postseason but a bye as well. Because of the overhaul in player personnel, it seems like forever since the Falcons were in the playoffs, but it was only four years ago when they emerged...
WATKINS: I wouldn't not do it. [But] what I really failed to grasp was the seriousness of the emperor-has-no-clothes phenomenon. I thought leaders were made in moments of crisis, and I naively thought that I would be handing [Enron chairman] Ken Lay his leadership moment. I honestly thought people would step up. But I said he was naked, and when he turned to the ministers around him, they said they were sure he was clothed...
This is where three women of ordinary demeanor but exceptional guts and sense come into the picture. Sherron Watkins is the Enron vice president who wrote a letter to chairman Kenneth Lay in the summer of 2001 warning him that the company's methods of accounting were improper. In January, when a congressional subcommittee investigating Enron's collapse released that letter, Watkins became a reluctant public figure, and the Year of the Whistle-Blower began. Coleen Rowley is the FBI staff attorney who caused a sensation in May with a memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller about how the bureau...