Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly thereafter, Seanor fed Feaster with agorgeous backdoor pass that the All-Americanconverted into a layup to pull Harvard to withinone. Following a missed shot by the Cardinal,Miller came back and hit an off-balance runnerfrom the foul line to put theB-3NCAAPeter DeSilvaJUMP AROUND: Sophomore LAELA STURDY(left) basks in the exhilaration of the Harvard'srecord-breaking victory at Stanford on Saturdaynight...
Whoever took the papers certainly knew his way around. To gain access to Albright's suite, the perpetrator had to have a State Department identification card and either pass by a security guard or use a special magnetic swipe card to enter the secure area. He also had to contend with video-surveillance cameras, which have apparently furnished few clues about his identity...
...original planned tour of the Jovian system and is on a two-year extended mission to study several of Jupiter's moons. Six other flybys of Europa are scheduled before the sturdy spacecraft, which left Earth almost nine years ago, at last shuts down in December 1999. On one pass, Galileo will observe Europa from an angle that will allow scientists to look for telltale volcanic plumes rising from its edge. If found, they'll indicate that the moon is warmer than it seems--and an even likelier incubator for extraterrestrial life...
...past 30 years, Princeton players have been bullied and brainwashed into looking for the pass first and the shot second. When the leather of the roundball touches your hands, your first thought is, Who else is open? Not, How am I gonna get my shot? It's not easy to learn, and it goes against the grain of me-first American individualism and the lure of million-dollar sneaker contracts. The highest skill of a Princeton basketball player is not to run, jump or shoot but to see. And it is still the rarest basketball skill...
...moral idealism but its real-world practicality. At every moment you have a set of binary options that anticipates each possible move of your opponent--and gives you a way to overcome it. Is your man overplaying you? Cut backdoor. Is he sloughing off? Come out for the pass. If your teammate dribbles toward you, either cut away or scoot round for a hand-off. As if you were playing judo with a ball, you always use the strength of your opponent against...