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...basketball has something to do with that stat. Jess Holsey’s daring passes and Katie Murphy’s breakneck fast breaks don’t always lead to baskets, but they nevertheless take the Crimson to where it ought to be—out of its shell and stomping on the Big Green...
...independence from the disintegrating U.S.S.R.] went beyond the imminent creation of the fifth most populous country in Europe?52 million people, slightly fewer than in France. More broadly, the ballot seems likely to trigger the final dissolution of the Soviet Union ... Even now [the Kremlin government] is only a shell that some diplomats assert fails the test for diplomatic recognition?it does not control the territory it claims. Last week the [Soviet] central bank ran out of cash ... [and] the government may be unable to pay its employees, including the more than 3 million members of the military. If that...
...late December, the Russian government shut out rival bidders for Yukos' core oil division, the million-barrel-a-day Yuganskneftegaz. Then state oil firm Rosneft snapped it up, using a shell company, for a bargain $9.4 billion. That drew catcalls even from Vladimir Putin's own economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov. Managers from Rosneft turned up on New Year's Eve at Yuganskneftegaz's Siberian HQ to claim the keys. Meanwhile, in Houston, Deutsche Bank is challenging the temporary bankruptcy protection won earlier by Yukos lawyers hoping to stave off the sale. The bank argues that Texas law has no place...
...rocket-propelled grenade or .50-cal. machine-gun bullet from killing those inside. But they are built to halt armor-piercing 7.62-mm rounds--the kind of bullets fired from AK-47s, an insurgent favorite. The roof is engineered to thwart the blast of a 155-mm artillery shell exploding overhead, and the floor is reinforced to protect passengers from a bomb or a 12-lb. mine buried in the road...
...course, the film puts the heaviest weight on Murray, and the actor is never quite invested enough in the performance to support it. In creating Zissou, Murray cleanly cuts out the weary heartache of Lost in Translation’s Bob Harris to offer a shell of a man too sterile and smarmy to lend any real gravitas to Zissou’s gradual realization of his own mid-life impotence...