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...when you take a punch like they gave us at the end of the first half, it can carry over when you don’t have a home crowd behind you.” Goffredo was kept in check all evening by Hughes, whose superior length, quickness, and strength helped limit Harvard’s second-leading scorer to just nine points on 3-of-10 shooting from the field overall and 1-of-6 from three-point range. During a crucial stretch late in the second half with Harvard making a last-ditch effort to cut into...
...colt galloped into the nation's hearts in May, with a stunning, six-and-a-half-length win in the Kentucky Derby that had the racing experts shouting Triple Crown. But two weeks later, his race toward the sports pantheon was abruptly halted, when he shattered his right hind leg at the start of the Preakness, inspiring a nationwide vigil. He was saved, but never out of danger: one day ready to sprint out of that Pennsylvania veterinary hospital that suddenly became a center of the sports world, the next day yet another setback. The emotional wave has finally crashed...
...voice belongs to Comrade Victor, 39, the political officer assigned to look after us. (Victor, like all N.P.A. fighters, uses a nom de guerre. The platoon's machine gunner is called Comrade Bren.) A handsome man dressed in shin-length shorts and orange flip-flops, Victor first apologizes for his poor English (he speaks it perfectly), then for our circuitous journey: a rebel operation had caused more "bad weather" to the south. "Our people were carrying out a punitive action," says Victor, meaning an assassination by an N.P.A. "sparrow unit" or death squad. The man killed was a farmer...
...Even if Wikileaks is successful in posting 1.2 million documents online and protecting the identities of its leakers, a fundamental challenge remains: how to prove the documents' authenticity. Says Aftergood: "Anyone who's been in the business for any length of time knows leakers leak because they are trying to advance an agenda of their own, or because they have some personality or psychological quirk that leads them to disclose information out of official channels." Documents could easily be planted on the site by the same "corrupt" governments and corporations Wikileaks seeks to expose...
...cast as the duped dad vs. the scheming wife," says Temple University law professor Theresa Glennon, who has examined the changing legal landscape. "This is really about men deserting children they have been parenting." She points out that severing paternal ties could devastate a child depending on the length and quality of his relationship with the nonbiological father...