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...nearly taking him down for a 10-yard loss. DiPaolo managed to get the ball off, but the receiver was wearing crimson, not white. Williams jumped on the short throw, and not only did he make the catch, quelling the threat, but he was off to the races. Williams ran it back 91 yards for the score that allowed the Harvard fans to breathe a sigh of relief. “That play is the epitome of what we work on as a defense and that is everybody following the ball,” Williams said. “Glenn...
...eight critical years when the groundwork for preventing climate change could have been laid. He still talked about the environment, but what matters is that he spent little in the way of political capital to actually do anything about it. During the 2000 election he even ran away from his environmental reputation - "Ozone Man," the first President Bush liked to call him. It was a moment for political leadership, and Gore did not provide...
...been mired in controversy ever since it was first proposed 88 years ago by Sun Yat Sen, the founding father of Modern China. In 1992, when Chinese Premier Li Peng submitted a proposal for the dam to China's normally pliant parliament, the National People's Congress, it ran into serious opposition and ultimately passed with the smallest margin in the legislature's history...
...Hundreds of demonstrators picketed the U.S. embassy in Ankara just before the vote. "A Bill of Hatred," ran the banner headline on the top-selling Turkish newspaper Hurriyet. The non-binding measure, which passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee by a vote of 27 to 21, will now be sent on to the full House. "Unfortunately, some politicians in the United States have once again sacrificed important matters to petty domestic politics despite all calls to common sense," said Turkish President Abdullah...
...world cup. Khan doesn't get to show any cool dance moves while wooing a beautiful female lead, or display his well-toned muscles in fight sequences with bad guys. In fact, the film gets by without a single song-and-dance routine at all. Yet, it ran to packed houses even two months after its release, and "Chak De India," a Punjabi phrase meaning "Go India!" has become a trendy catchphrase across the country. "Everything about the film is different," says well-known film critic Vinayak Chakravorty. "The script, direction, treatment, all stray from the usual formula. The result...