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...First, there is hostility, then acceptance, and then "the third phase is to be crushed in a bear hug," Reilly says...
Parity, talent, and competition usually create excitement, and judging by this standard, the NBA is in the nascent phase of a new 'silver age.' The drafts from 1992-1996 yielded a bonanza of new stars that now define basketball like the 1984-1985 classes of Jordan, Olajuwon, Malone, Barkley, Ewing, and Stockton did for the past 15 years...
...their motion is denied, Harvard may be forced to release internal documents on its tenure proceedings for the first time in the "discovery of evidence" phase of a civil suit...
...President Bush's reluctance to increase defense spending right now, the "boost phase" scheme becomes a project for the backburner. Instead, the administration may be more inclined to press ahead with the Clinton scheme to deploy some 20 missiles by 2006 as an initial phase - even though the system has so far failed two out of three tests rigged to reduce the chances of failure - hence Rumsfeld's permissive take on perfection. In the end, though, the NATO allies will take a more basic message from the diplomatic efforts of Messrs. Rumsfeld and Bush: We're happy to discuss missile...
...student. (The money is raised from overseas groups and the Pakistani public, often via open demonstrations in Pakistani cities of militants working out, scaling walls and showing other martial tricks. Generous donors are invited to visit the not-so-secret camps to see how their money is spent.) Phase two is designed to push each volunteer to his physical limit and cull the weak from the strong. In the final weeks, recruits use live ammunition, construct actual explosives and perfect ambush techniques. The final exam lasts three days. A group of trainees, sometimes as large as 100 individuals, hikes...