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...years in prison, while Payne was convicted and sentenced to 27.) The spate of incidents wasn't limited to the U.S., either. When communism crumbled in Eastern Europe, one of the earliest side effects of free-market capitalism was the proliferation of people looking to get rich quick. In Albania, under Communism the poorest nation in Europe, citizens sank some $1.2 billion dollars into pyramid schemes in 1996. When they collapsed the following year, investor outrage brought down the government...
Naomi T. Ewing, director of college counseling at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, located in Chicago’s north suburbs, noticed that low income students aren’t quick to latch onto Harvard’s promise of affordability...
...face it, the irate Iraqi journalist who hurled his size-10 shoes, one at a time, at President George W. Bush during a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Sunday had pretty good aim. If it weren't for the President's quick duck and weave, he might have had more than just a surprised look on his face. "So what if a guy threw his shoe at me?" Bush said, brushing off the incident. Perhaps we should chalk that statement up as yet another of the President's cultural misunderstandings of Iraq...
...boards. Markley opened the half with three consecutive buckets, two off of assists from Tay, who would go on to post an entertaining run of her own. With the score at 48-28, the senior dropped eight points in five minutes, adding a one-handed floater after a quick crossover under the net with about five minutes to play and a pull-up jumper to bring the score to 54-30. Tay entered the record books with a spectacular wraparound shot, all while switching hands in mid-air to become the 13th player in the program’s history...
...guys tonight and I anticipate we’re going to have to continue to use our bench, especially now, after double-overtime,” Amaker said after the Northeastern game. “[We have just] a couple days and travel and then we play a very quick and athletic George Washington team. So we’re going to need to use our bench as we did tonight.” One player certain to see a lot of the court tomorrow is junior guard Jeremy Lin. The best player on the team, and perhaps...