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...bomb threes. And if he leads Dallas to a title, Nowitzki will stamp the European revolution of America's game. The first wave of Euros from the early '90s - Vlade Divac of Serbia, Toni Kukoc and Drazen Petrovic from Croatia - had to earn the begrudging respect of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and the basketball establishment. The next wave - Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic of Serbia, Pau Gasol of Spain - could play, but still faced the question of whether they could carry a team deep into the playoffs. Nowitzki proves they can. On behalf of American hoops fans: Vielen Dank, Dirk. Many thanks...
...nights in Loker Commons, the Pub Night Commission’s and CLC’s Harvard-Yale pep rally, dodgeball tournaments, and the Junior Class Events Commission’s “Junior Class Does Junior High” dance. Most notably, the office found the magic formula for a successful Harvard State Fair in the fall and Yardfest in the spring: close the dining halls, and pour carnival food into Tercentenary Theater. Drawn by a mechanical bull and Ben Folds, respectively, and by dinner on both occasions, students flocked to the events, with many exclaiming afterwards that...
...being dragged along by one person,” she added. “We’re all kind of pulling ourselves along together.” With a new, dedicated team in place as competition began, nine proved to be the Harvard’s magic number, as the Crimson took ninth place in every event of the season. Harvard took ninth place out of 13 competing teams at the season-opening St. Lawrence Carnival, a performance it followed with another ninth-place finish at the Vermont Carnival the next week. Harvard was similarly consistent in the second...
...FEEL AS IF IN THE PAST 10 OR 15 YEARS YOU'VE BEEN IN A RESTLESS, EXPLORING MOOD, PUSHING YOURSELF BEYOND THE REALM OF THE TRADITIONALLY UPDIKEAN BOOK. YOU'VE WRITTEN MAGIC REALISM AND SCIENCE FICTION AND NOW A THRILLER. Part of my setting up shop was the idea that I should produce a book a year--that this was a better way to run being a writer than to think of yourself as a kind of a priest-prophet, the way American writers like Norman Mailer--the esteemed Norman Mailer--did. Now, with modern medicine, and modern Protestant lifestyle...
...modest house where they rent a room, Ngoi Banza Leontine, 45, and her husband Monji Banza, 47, say they fled the fighting with their nine children just before Christmas, after the Mai Mai came to their village and burned many of the houses. The Mai Mai, who believe in magic and occultism, began cutting open people's stomachs even before killing them to take parts of their bodies for fetishes. Leontine says she is haunted by the memory of one friend's death. The woman was killed by a machete and then beheaded. "Her head was put on a stick...