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...locker room at halftime. Columbia, though, which trailed by as many as 27 in the first half, came out a different team in the second. In the first 10 minutes following the break, the Lions slowly chipped away at the Crimson lead. Harvard was uncharacteristically troubled by the Columbia press, and the momentum began to shift the home team’s way. The Crimson gave up 18 second-half points off turnovers. The Lions were also helped in the comeback bid by 21 second-half free throw attempts—16 of which they made. Columbia...
...Jackson before the speech but instead ending up helping the reverend complete his draft. Jackson’s lecture wandered from the Iraq War to the Civil Rights Movement to Barack Obama’s political rise, devoting attention to a wide range of problems facing America. In a press conference after the event, Jackson spoke in favor of both Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, although he emphasized his support of Obama, his fellow Chicagoan, in the presidential campaign. Jackson said Obama has “charismatic gifts that appeal to people,” adding that they...
...look for people who are fun to roast,” Friedman said. “We had no idea what to expect from him. He plays so many characters. We weren’t sure if he’d be crazy.” But during a press conference after the event, Walken was calm and reflective, despite the smears of lipstick on his cheek. He spoke of his love for the atmosphere of university towns and his appearance in a play at Harvard years earlier, as well as his early jobs as a lion tamer...
Thus Thatcher will press more re forms on the labor unions, including legis lation that would require union leaders to stand for re-election every five years and allow union members to opt out of auto matically paying dues to the Labor Party Declining industries such as steel, coal and shipbuilding will be urged to up productivity and modernize facilities. Besides selling more state-owned companies, she will allow some private utilities to compete with public ones. And in her belief that "property induces responsibility in society," Thatcher plans to permit more tenants to buy their government-built homes. hatcher...
...Whenever we've investigated previous police action the press was in on, the trail has always stopped with police unions, and never led to Sarkozy or the government in verifiable fashion," says Daniel Schneidermann, media critic for the daily Liberation. "We'll probably never know where the initiative for leaking began. The thing to watch is how many suspects are detained and tried in the days and weeks after this sweep, once the media attention dies down. If a lot are, then this was a genuine police operation. If not, we can put it mostly down to spin...