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...easy layup after easy layup—that was Gansey’s favorite move. Or to see Drew Housman and Jeremy Lin confidently work the ball around the Wolverines’ zone D waiting for the open look.Thanks to Amaker, Beilein had the size and speed, the outright skill, at his disposal to beat Harvard. But he didn’t exploit that fully because he’s trying to teach a system to a very young Michigan squad that he thinks will work in the long term. And he’ll recruit players that suit that...
Meet the American consumer of late 2007. Sure, he's worried. Apart from a brief blip after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the University of Michigan's much watched Index of Consumer Sentiment hasn't been this low since 1992. But buying stuff is what we Americans do. The last outright decline in consumer spending came in 1991, and that was shallow and short-lived. Most indications are that this year's Christmas shopping season will be, if not exactly a blowout, better than the last...
...Soviet-backed communist regime and moving through the Taliban years into the twenty-first century. Along the way, she chronicles the shifting alliances and sentiments that plagued the war-torn country. Her cogent analysis and engaging narrative provide a window into a country so often obscured and, she argues, outright ignored by the West. Gannon’s narrative arc spans social and political divisions, with interviews that range from the most senior-ranking government officials in both the mujahideen and Taliban eras to average Afghani citizens of nearly every tribe and creed. Her book becomes more than an excellent...
...claims that he’s talking about the survival of the country, which is outright rubbish,” said history professor Sugata Bose, who is an expert on modern South Asia. “What he is doing is talking about his own survival. He is basically trying to save his own skin and save his job.” [SEE CORRECTION APPENDED...
...records began. But this situation is rare. Often a claim is just that, a mere assertion unbacked by documents of any kind, made by Aborigines who live in an entirely different area. This infuriates some Australian graziers, especially those whose stations (ranches) are on land they do not own outright but hold in lease from the Crown. A native title claim on their land, even a weak one, can freeze their assets and put bank loans out of reach. Moreover, it is facile to fall in with the favorite assumption of white urban Australian liberals: that only Aborigines have...