Word: second
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After three road contests against bigger teams with superior athleticism, Harvard was finally able to bully its opponent down low, finishing with a rebounding advantage of 45-31 and scoring 22 second-chance points...
...Harvard’s pressure defense did not let up in the second half, and when the three pointers stopped falling for the Engineers, things began to get ugly fast...
...Engineers came out hot to start the second half, as Billy Bender knocked down a long ball from the corner to cut the Crimson’s lead to six. Lin countered with a full-court layup and then forced a steal moments later. The star guard raced up the court and found sophomore Oliver McNally as he streaked to the basket for the easy layup, extending the lead...
After reading the TIME 100, I came to several conclusions. First, the world is apparently being shaped by virtual unknowns. Second, the real influential people seem to be the ones writing the essays. Third, aren't the media that report on what most affects Americans among the most influential? Curiously, their names were missing...
...destined not for shoe boxes but for history books. A year that dawned to the chime of change soon got bogged down in intractable troubles. No subject appeared more often on this page than the conflicts raging in the volatile crescent from Iraq and Iran to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Second place went to our sour economy's ups and downs--the job losses and con artists, the green shoots and Black Fridays. Struggle abroad and struggle at home: surely those were defining glimpses of this Moment in our history...