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...said of his team’s inside play. “Sometimes when you scrap and claw and hustle, you’ll be amazed at how many plays go your way.”JEREMY SPOKEIt wasn’t class time but school was certainly in session as Lin put on a clinic at Lavietes. To go along with his game-tying layup to send the game into overtime, Lin shot 9-of-15 from the floor for a team-high 20 points. He also had seven boards, three assists, two blocks, and two steals...
...founded the Algebra Project, a progressive math education program for low-income students that has been put in place in around 40,000 American middle schools. Currently, he teaches math in Miami, Fla. The civil rights leader only mentioned his own career in the question-and-answer session following the speech, when a former student asked him how he believed his role as an educator had furthered civil rights. Moses said that he saw education as a crucial step in expanding rights. “There is nothing radical about voter registration. But bringing voter registration to Mississippi sharecroppers, that...
While there was no disagreement at the meeting about the idea of sending Haig abroad, there were differences of opinion over the tone that the U.S. should adopt during the mission. U.N. Ambassador Kirkpatrick, a guest at the session, argued strongly that the U.S. should respect the sensitivities of the nationalistic Argentines. Her repeated point: the U.S. must not allow the Falklands issue to undermine the American interest in building a common anti-Communist front among Latin Americans...
Lord Carrington took the criticism to heart. Prior to the emergency Commons session, he had told Thatcher of his intention to resign. The amiable and popular Foreign Secretary, who earned worldwide admiration for his 1979 negotiation of an end to the Rhodesian civil war, was unafraid of political criticism but felt strongly that his resignation was a matter of honor. Thatcher and Deputy Tory Leader William Whitelaw tried hard over the April
...Iraq was barely mentioned in the public sessions, aside from a few perfunctory Islamic calls for immediate U.S. withdrawal. It was a different story in the private conversations in the corridors. "Obama and Hillary Clinton can't be serious about leaving Iraq in 12 to 16 months," a well-informed Jordanian said to me. "If you do that, there will be chaos. The Turks will attack the north. The Iranians will take over the south." I pointed out that the same may or may not be true if we leave in 10 ... or 100 years, as John McCain has defiantly...