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...rookie seasons in school history, Gloger left for UCLA. Now he’s back and reportedly looked sharp during the team’s trip to Spain ... Look for Persia to take over the point guard responsibilities for Princeton now that Ahmed El-Nokali has departed ... Princeton will lean on Wysocki at center now that Martin is gone to Yale...
Hope resembles Updike too in her yearning to reach for transcendent states by way of the things of this world--food, landscape, pigment and, of course, sex. What she loves first about McCoy is not his art but the lean arc of his body and the feral escarpments of his face, with its "lovely low-relief episodes of muscle." If this is a novel in which people think and talk, it's a frisky one all the same. "I'm not terribly up on the actual sex lives of these artists," Updike admits, "except that they were sexy and they...
...presumptive election this week of liberal San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi to the House minority-leader post vacated by Dick Gephardt indicates that for now the party will lean left. But for some, ideology is less important than unity. "Democrats have to go forward with a sharp message," Massachusetts Senator John Kerry told TIME. "It's not a question of moving left or right. People want you to look them in the eye and tell them what...
...changed dramatically. The CIA had briefed Bush in August about its new intelligence on Pyongyang's secret enrichment program. The President decided to confront Kim with the evidence, but the Administration first shared it with several congressional leaders and key countries that the U.S. would need to help lean on Pyongyang: Japan, South Korea, China and Russia...
...chicken wings, but in the airline business it's famous for ferocious winter storms that bring air travel--and sometimes all travel--to a frozen halt. That's what happened last December when Buffalo was buried under a record 7 ft. of snow. Southwest Airlines, with its lean scheduling system, was hit harder than most. One of its planes got stuck so long it came due for a routine maintenance check. Without it, the plane wouldn't be allowed to fly--and that would cost Southwest tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenue. What...