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...Scot Pollard, coming back from a broken foot, grabbed a career-high 19 rebounds to go with six blocks and 12 points in top-ranked Kansas' victory...
Kansas has senior leadership in the backcourt (Jacque Vaughn and Jerod Haase) and a great inside game with the twin ivory towers, Scot Pollard and Raef LaFrentz. I'd go ahead and put Kansas in the space in your bracket where it says "Champion...
...seduce a target; raven: the male counterpart of a swallow). Beyond these terms are detailed entries about notable spies of yesteryear (Daniel Defoe, Christopher Marlowe), as well as those of more recent vintage (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Whittaker Chambers, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Jonathan Pollard...
Nowadays, alas, the espionage racket lacks class. Ambition is driven by hubris and shabby moneygrubbing. Pollard gets a job with Naval Intelligence and sells out to the Israelis. Ames succeeds thanks to the "incredible malfeasance" of colleagues who do not think it suspicious that he banks more than $1 million and drives a $40,000 Jaguar on a $69,000 salary. Nicholson, charged with, among other things, selling the Russians the names of CIA people he trained, flunks his own course in dry cleaning: he never suspects that for months he has been taped, wiretapped and photographed by counterintelligence agents...
...ever idealism played a role in espionage, people like Pollard, Ames and Nicholson killed it. Newcomers to the game who want romance will have to find it in the novels of Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carre. Those chaps knew their craft: they were all successful spies...