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...point guard, who took over the game in the second half with his drives to the hoop, sliced from the top of the arc to the basket to make it 76-71 with a minute and a half remaining. The Crimson did not finish off the win without a scare, however. Cusworth fouled out attempting to grab a rebound with a little over a minute left, and after a series of free throws, Lin traveled attempting to break the full-court press, giving the ball back to Vermont with 49 seconds left and the Catamounts needing only a three-pointer...
...course, Crichton's ambition is never merely to scare us. The Crichtonian view of humanity is that we're all a bunch of overeager meddlers, so high on greed and curiosity that we can't resist trifling with complex systems (you know--DNA, nanotechnology, alien spheres, Japan) in the name of progress, which then turn around and bite us, often literally. This view is not necessarily incorrect, and Crichton has expressed it in some first-rate, even prescient, works of genre fiction, notably Congo and Jurassic Park. (Crichton is in real life famously tall--he's usually reported...
...minister Fouad Siniora would try to begin the process of Hizballah's disarmament that was reaffirmed in the U.N.-brokered cease-fire that ended this summer's war. Moreover, some politicians in Beirut suspect that the assassination of Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel on Tuesday was plotted by Syria to scare cabinet ministers into voting against the international probe into Hariri's death by a massive truck bomb (other analysts argue the predictable fallout from the killing just ahead of such a crucial vote is precisely why Syria would not have ordered it). Saad Hariri, the prime minister...
...Required Halloween Scare...
...comparison, the Xbox 360 costs $300 for a basic version and $400 for one with a hard drive; the Nintendo Wii console costs $250.) Throw in a few PS3 games, at $60 a pop, and you're out $900--a sum that may scare off consumers. And PS3 already frightens stock analysts. "We do not believe the machine provides incentives for buyers to buy a new machine ... except some game maniacs," Merrill Lynch analyst Hitoshi Kuriyama wrote in a recent report...