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...third most on the Crimson. He led Harvard in scoring on three occasions, including a 20-point performance in a win at Columbia in which he played all 40 minutes and shot 10-of-11 from the free-throw line.As evidenced by that performance, Housman’s offensive prowess manifested itself in an uncanny ability to get to the line.Time and again, when opposing defenses clamped down on captain Matt Stehle and Goffredo, Housman would shake his defender with a dribble move and take the ball to the basket, unafraid to draw contact from the behemoths in the paint...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MALE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Frosh Becomes Offensive Leader | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...target audience of men aged 18 to 34. It's an exciting new medium, she says, "and a lot of brands don't understand it. I wanted to be one of the first fashion brands to use it to target my audience." But while no one disputes the technical prowess of the new generation of ads, that doesn't mean they actually work. In the case of the infamous Feather, as much as Welsh blogger Huntley enjoyed and shared the site, he didn't realize it was an ad for Axe. Are some viral campaigns too cute by half, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ad-Ventures Online | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...sympathy, but lagged far behind in most of the races. Cobbled together by an eccentric, Italian-born shipping tycoon and sailing enthusiast who lives in Durban, Shosholoza lacks just about everything conventional wisdom holds that a team needs to be successful. They can't compete with the experience, technological prowess and $100 million-plus budgets of teams like U.S. entry BMW-Oracle (put together by software billionaire Larry Ellison) or some of the European entries. The team has broken a mast and collided with a whale during a training run on Cape Town's Table Bay. Lacking sponsorship, they spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Kind Of Race | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...naming of Nouri al-Maliki as Iraq's new Prime Minister, who the U.S. hopes can finally form a unity government that will begin to erode the strength of the insurgency. In the video, a bearded and black-clad al-Zarqawi fires a machine gun to show off his prowess as a fighter, then aims some verbal broadsides at the enemy. He accuses the U.S. of waging a crusade against Islam, adding, "By God, your dreams will be defeated by our blood and by our bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face to Face With Terror | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...answer is no, not really. While the developed nations were enjoying the fruits of the postindustrial revolution throughout the greater part of the 20th century, Asians had to struggle to live from hand to mouth. Education has been the prime moving force for the emergence of Asian economic prowess. We have to excel to ensure our mobility. What then is a bit of extra pushing during childhood? The only problem is that almost every child is being pressured, regardless of his or her individual capability and potential. And that is most disturbing, if not utterly undesirable. Dann Munti Penang, Malaysia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/29/2006 | See Source »

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