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Cusworth finished the first half with eight points and added to it early in the second period. He scored his team’s first five points of the frame, and recorded a monstrous rejection of a Brett Loscalzo jumper that helped shift momentum to the Crimson’s side...
They also stay in dreary hotels with no hot water. They get up at 6 in the morning every day. They go to dinners where they have to consume monstrous quantities of a Chinese liquor called baijiu (pronounced buy- joe), which is basically moonshine, only stronger and not quite as tasty. And at those dinners, sometimes what they have to eat is ... well, no doubt lots of fun for their bemused Chinese hosts. "There was one dish that looked like a bowl of ribbon pasta [but] it was crunchy and almost tasteless. I asked what it was, and the Mayor...
...will never happen. This counterblast (much of it in a paper written by Columbia University's Jagdish Bhagwati, today's unchallenged intellectual champion of free trade) has two parts. First, free trade's defenders say, it is unrealistic to assume that China or India will suddenly develop a monstrous capacity in high-end, high-technology innovation. "The oft repeated argument that India and China will quickly educate 300 million of their citizens to acquire sophisticated and complex skills," write Bhagwati and his colleagues, "borders on the ludicrous. The educational sectors in those countries face enormous difficulties." This rings true...
With the Crimson trailing 28-20, Terriers tri-captain Rashad Bell hit two free throws, then cut to the basket on the ensuing possession, caught a pass from guard Bryan Geffen and powered home a monstrous two-hand dunk to extend the lead...
...year-old Dallas banker, returned from a vacation to Tokyo and Hong Kong in 2001 raving as much about TV sets as about ancient temples, towering skyscrapers and exotic food. A self-proclaimed tech geek, Gale scouted out electronics shops and was mesmerized by flat-screen TVs. Their monstrous sizes, sleek designs and flashy displays were perfect, he thought, for watching his favorite Dallas Stars charge down the ice. "I'd never seen anything like them," he says of the TVs. "They were just phenomenal. As soon as I got back to Dallas I was thinking...