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...guard also gives the bench a very different look. Housman and Harris are among the first off the bench and give life to the second unit. “I think that’s one of the keys for us now. Our bench has given us a lift to where we can play more bodies and when we go to our bench, instead of a drop off, we’re picking up the pace,” Amaker said. “It’s really nice to have Housman coming in as a veteran guard...
...Rollins dominated the first half for Harvard, but not even the best performance of her career could lift the Crimson to a victory over Kennesaw State...
...Nearly a dozen of his potential supporters remained, however. They circled around Thompson's state chairman, Rep. Steve King, the man who just might lift the struggling campaign to a halfway decent finish in the nation's first caucus state. A popular state conservative, King was holding court, as he often does, on the issue of illegal immigration, which he speaks of as a crisis on par with the war in Iraq...
...common denominator between Pakistan, Gaza, Lebanon and Iraq is an ongoing war, wars without end, wars that poison democracy. The Bush Administration is particularly culpable in creating the chaos in Pakistan because it forced a premature reconciliation between President Musharraf and Bhutto; it forced Musharraf to lift martial law; it showered money on Musharraf to fight a war that was never popular in Pakistan. The Administration could not understand that it can't have both in Pakistan - a democracy and a war on terrorism...
...order to lift emergency rule should please Musharraf's Western backers, including the U.S. But many of the measures Musharraf introduced over the past six weeks remain. Draconian new regulations such as the one that curbs the freedom of the press as well as the changes to the Supreme Court "shall not be called into question by or before any court," a clause in today's order reads. Musharraf's announcement came within hours of a suicide bombing which killed five people outside an army base about 75 miles (120 km) north of the capital Islamabad. Pakistan has faced...