Word: leadings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson struck first as McNally gave it a 47-46 edge, but soon after, Army senior Cleveland Richards—the team’s leading scorer and a second team all-league pick a year ago—went two-for-two from the line to give his team a one point lead. The Black Knights would trade leads with Harvard for a while until a Simmons trip to the line would give Army the lead for good. After the sophomore went two-for-two, Army’s Miller gave the team insurance with a two-point trip...
...making one of his two free throws, the sophomore gave the Black Knights a three-point lead, forcing Harvard to try for overtime from the perimeter...
...been so crucial had Harvard not dug itself into a 14-point hole early. The Crimson committed 11 turnovers in the first seven minutes of the game, the first two coming from Lin. The opportunistic Black Knights wasted little time, using a 17-2 run to gain an imposing lead. A win may have allowed Harvard to celebrate its rally, but the loss means that the team will have to reflect on its inability to play with composure early in the game...
...likely that China will continue to grow faster than the U.S., and we may continue to see our global dominance erode. But very significantly, we still hold many of the world's trump cards. We still have the world's strongest military, which means we can and must lead in maintaining order and crafting peace. We are the leaders in technological innovation. And we are still the nation that most others emulate. If we remember those points and avoid the easy outs of deferral and neglect, then the next decade should be a helluva lot better than the last...
...25th Prime Minister of Thailand, Samak was elected in December 2008 in the first national polls following a military coup that deposed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2006. Samak freely admitted he had been chosen to lead the victorious People Power Party by Thaksin, who was living in exile but retained enormous popularity with Thailand's poor and rural electorate. Samak, whose base was in Bangkok, appealed to the rural majority by proudly proclaiming he was Thaksin's "proxy...