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...supports Siniora's government as an example of a budding Arab democracy and as a useful counterweight to Syrian and Iranian regional ambitions. But an anti-Western alliance that includes Iran, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas wants to roll back U.S. influence in the Middle East, using Lebanon as the pivot. "Lebanon will be the defeat point for Israel and America," Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei said last week. The country is holding its collective breath to see whether the demonstrations will escalate. "In the mid-1970s we passed through a similar situation and the country's leaders took...
Sure, with sophomore Drew Housman at the 1 and senior captain Jim Goffredo at the 2, it could have the best backcourt in a guard-oriented league. But without a fearsome pivot keeping them honest, opposing defenses will key in on Goffredo and make senior Brian Darcy or junior Brad Unger or sophomore Evan Harris or freshman Jo Mama beat them down low. I’m hearing good things about rookie swingman Jeremy Lin, though...
...Commissioner David Stern has already executed a beautiful pivot move into China, where, thanks in part to Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, hoops is hotter than Sichuan cooking. There's still work to be done in Europe, even though it is now a source of many NBA players, including seven Frenchmen and six Slovenes. Before the season, the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns played exhibition games in Germany, a challenging NBA country, as part of a four-team, five-country full-court press of Europe--Italy, Spain, France and Russia were also hosts of training camps and games...
...commissioner David Stern has already executed a beautiful pivot move into China, where, thanks in part to Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, hoops is hotter than Sichuan cooking. There's still work to be done in Europe, even though it is now a source of many NBA players, including seven Frenchmen and six Slovenes. Before the season, the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns played exhibition games in Germany, a challenging NBA country, as part of a four-team, five-country full-court press of Europe -Italy, Spain, France and Russia were also hosts of training camps and games...
...Japan's vacuum markets. But the price-conscious U.S., where Dyson upright vacs have been selling since 2002, is tougher. Big brands, feeling threatened, are quick to advertise their own Dyson-like benefits at lower costs. Black & Decker already has a Root 6 competitor, the 18 Volt Pivot Vac. There's no lithium-ion battery, but for $60 it picks up dirt using something it calls "cyclonic action...