Word: point
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard doesn't have a true backup point guard, so Monti, the Crimson's only confident ball-handler, had her hands full...
Usually a small forward, the 6'0 Kelley moved over to the two spot and showed tremendous poise for a freshman, scoring 14 points, the second-highest total on the team, in only 26 minutes. Kelley made all eight of her free throw attempts as well as two three-point shots...
...that geopolitics pop quiz, it clearly reflects a central campaign concern: that Bush might be seen as a lightweight, a silver-spoon child of privilege without the heft to deal with the presidency. The disturbing images, the edgy music in a minor key, the unsettling language aim at one point: No mindless frat boy here...
Egyptians are particularly incensed that just three words, in circumstances difficult to interpret, could point to suicide. The words may have been totally misunderstood. El-Batouti was just as likely to be expressing concern at some emergency when he spoke. The phrase was no solemn invocation of death but an everyday expression among Egyptians, murmured at the start of many a mundane task. Suicide defies the holiest precepts of Islam, and for Egyptians it brings unthinkable shame to family and nation. "You can't jump to conclusions from someone quoting the Koran and say this was more than an accident...
...religious faith so much as faith in humankind. Faith that people can throng by the hundreds of thousands in the world's metropolises without havoc. Faith that one's fellow humans will not--out of their own faith or some twisted private purpose--seek to put a bloody exclamation point on the millennium or precipitate the apocalypse. The most basic kind of human faith, really: the faith that the sun will rise tomorrow on a world more or less like...