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Perhaps Carril's hard-nosed, no-fluff attitude seems more realistic that McLaughlin's "wait-for-the-next-one," hoping praise. But you have to feel that McLaughlin's positive outlook benefits a young, inexperienced team like Harvard or Princeton.
That speech is remembered well by the kintandeiras, the hard-nosed Angolan businesswomen who have traditionally bought food wholesale and sold retail at the marketplace. In recent weeks they have been on strike, protesting against the low retail prices set by the government. Swordfish, for example, is listed at about...
While the Thames cleanup is cheering British environmentalists, the case of California's New River is becoming something of an international scandal. When it crosses into the U.S. from Mexico at the town of Calexico, it is so loaded with filth, ranging from parts of animal carcasses to human...
Bobby Allen kept the hoopsters in the game through the second half, in which he scored 12 of his 14 points. In a three minute span the snub-nosed junior scored on a pair of jumpers, a tip-in, and converted a three-point play to keep the Crimson tied...
Within 35 minutes of the murders, White and his wife walked into a police station four blocks from city hall. It was, ironically, a station out of which White had once worked as a patrolman. He turned in a five-shot, snub-nosed Smith & Wesson Chiefs Special Revolver, nine expended...