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...played only one season, most of it riding the bench, in the CBA. But his final regular-season game last spring offered a tantalizing glimpse of the future. With the game heading into overtime, Yi came off the bench to score 13 points in five minutes to seal the victory--and secure Guangdong's place atop the standings. Two weeks later, when Guangdong played the army team for the CBA championship, the stands were crawling with sports agents and shoe-company representatives, all fixated on the big kid on the bench. "It's partly the Yao Ming effect," said...
...Things changed when the Likud Party took power in 1977. The new government was committed to settling masses of Jews in the occupied territories in order to seal Israel?s grip on territory it regarded as part of the Land of Israel. At the center of Likud?s settlement policy was its Agriculture Minister - Ariel Sharon. And Sharon made clear in the 1970s, and again in the 90s when he set out to challenge the Oslo process, that the purpose of settlements was to create "facts on the ground" that would impede the surrender of the occupied territories by Israel...
...value targets in Iraq, quietly descended on an airstrip near Mosul last Wednesday--backed by MC-130 combat Talon planes, modified humvees and so-called little-bird attack helicopters--to prepare for a potential assault. A battalion from the 101st Airborne Division, based in Sinjar, was on alert to seal off escape routes leading to the Syrian border. But that day Saddam was not to be found. "We shoot a lot of dry holes. It's the law of averages," says a Pentagon official. "But his number's going to come...
...leading off an article with “NEW YORK—” or “BOSTON—” or “TIKRIT, Iraq—,” the author is attaching a seal of reliability to the story. It lends authority to the report, as if the writer gains more credibility for having seen the place with his or her own two eyes. It affords significance to the location from which someone is reporting. (Ironically, the datelined piece you are reading right now has almost nothing to do with the fact...
...chance to go an extra mile (or, in the case of traveling to New York, an extra 275 miles) to produce a quality article. It makes me feel as if I’m getting out and doing something novel during my reporting process, and it serves as a seal guaranteeing the journalistic quality of the product. A dateline yells out, “I’m not your run-of-the-mill newsroom-reported story!” Or at least it yells that...