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...scrap, claw, do a better job of boxing out?” Amaker said. “Can we be a little tougher defensively? Can we not allow the ball to get into the post? That’s both sides, that’s outside and inside players on defense...
...math whizzes. What's more, any speaking up at all seemed to do. Participants earned recognition for being the first to call out an answer, but also for being the second or third - even if all they did was agree with what someone else had said. Merely providing some scrap of information relevant to solving the problem counted too, as long as they did so often enough and confidently enough. (See TIME's photo-essay "All Cubed...
...Pavilion. Last weekend, Harvard dropped a pair of close games to Penn and Princeton at home. The losses, part of a three-game losing streak, were largely a product of errant free-throw shooting and poor transition defense.“We feel like we can just dig and scrap and claw a little bit more...and make it more difficult for people to get interior shots,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “That’s going to be big for us this weekend coming up against Yale and Brown...
...main opposition parties, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, have both pledged to scrap the scheme if they wrest power from Labour. Boris Johnson, London's Conservative mayor, is an enthusiastic proponent of an alternative plan to build a brand new airport in the Thames estuary. He describes the decision to greenlight Heathrow's expansion as "pure political machismo." (See pictures of Boris Johnson...
...years, by giving money and free oil to allies like Bolivia and Cuba. Such generosity may be unsustainable, as Chávez is discovering. He provided cheap heating oil to poor Americans in New York, Massachusetts and elsewhere until last week, when Venezuela's financial meltdown forced him to scrap the program...