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Such rational thinking may help calm coaches, but it's not enough to recharge a losing team. Bzdelik, whose Nuggets dropped nine of 10 games after the All-Star break, tried small things like putting an arm around a player to rebuild confidence and airing the good plays during film sessions. Denver soon snapped out of it. Riley's not really a coddler. During his final days with the Heat, which finished last in 2003, he taught history lessons to the team. "You have to educate today's young players about how the Magic Johnsons and Larry Birds went about...
...Part of the Fallujah incident's impact came from the fact that most of the media chose to describe the four civilian victims as "contractors," a word that conjured an image of engineers helping to rebuild the shattered country. In reality they were hired guns, former U.S. special forces guys subcontracted by the military to provide security for convoys resupplying a base - testimony, perhaps, to a military personnel shortage in Iraq being addressed through outsourcing...
...latest evidence of the changing nature of terrorism there too. Though the bombing killed only seven, not 27 as originally reported, its impact was outsized, underscoring the trend toward striking ever softer targets. That included last week's murders of four U.S. missionaries and two European engineers working to rebuild Iraq...
After recruiting a freshman class of reliable talent in every aspect of the game, snagging a star transfer player, and harnessing old talent, the 2004 team is full of spunk, skill, and commitment. It’s on a campaign to rebuild the program, and in terms of expectations, the sky is the limit. It’s already off to a 4-5 start against tough non-Ivy League teams...
...International Republican Institute (I.R.I.), ostensibly to promote democracy in Haiti. Critics say that was simply aid to Aristide's opponents. Spokesman Thayer Scott concedes that the I.R.I.'s work "had a political party--building component" but insists that "it created positive democratic space." If Washington really hopes to rebuild Haiti, Maguire points out, the space it should first focus on is the country's squalid streets...