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...Columbia shooting free throws. Kevin Bulger misses the first, makes the second. Harvard still in it. The Crimson bring it down the court, but can't find a good shot. Way too much time wasted, Housman calls for the ball and puts up a prayer of a shot. Poor half court offense by Harvard. Columbia 60, Harvard...
...Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination, has talked on the campaign trail about the "prayer warriors" who support her, and her campaign has made sure that primary voters know that Clinton used to host church picnics at the governor's mansion in Arkansas...
...blameless, including the homeowners. In signing the mortgages as financially responsible adults—albeit at the urging of greedy brokers—many of these borrowers lie about their income. Perhaps foreclosure then is the rightful resolution for those who took on loans that they had no prayer of repaying...
...floor and he answered my questions with short, perfunctory statements. Barely 30, he had a round face, broad shoulders and a habit of glaring at guests beneath his thick, black eyebrows. He came across as menacing yet dull. At the time, he was holding massive Friday-afternoon prayer rallies that he populated with poor workers bused in from the slums of Sadr City in Baghdad 100 miles to the north. I was hearing rumors that his followers were kidnapping and beating religious students who criticized him. The Coalition Provisional Authority was dithering about whether to arrest him on charges...
...1990s, Hussain was the Ambassador to the United States for then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the sworn enemy of the Bhutto dynasty. As she sits on a hastily constructed outdoor platform covered in tattered oriental rugs, in the village of Lalian, she addresses a small crowd of turbaned and prayer-capped men. They are local farmers, lured by the promise of tea, snacks and the entertainment that election rallies bring to the destitute villages of southern Punjab...