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After watching his team endure a total collapse at the end of last year, Harvard men’s basketball coach Frank Sullivan spent his off-season trying to right the ship. He put together a recruiting class ripe with sharp-shooting guards and slashing swingmen, and also worked on developing the pieces returning to the Crimson fold. But with key veterans leaving, diplomas in hand, and the shocking and untimely loss of highly-touted recruit Tomas Balcetis due to a heart condition, many questions still remain unanswered for the Crimson. One gaping hole in particular is the three position...
Authentic and charming in her own language, Cruz became self-conscious and mousy in English. In 2005's Sahara, she played a doctor searching for a lost Civil War ship in, yes, the Sahara. (And you thought the pregnant nun was far-fetched.) Sahara was yet another wretched film that led to another high-profile offscreen romance for Cruz, who ended up dating co-star Matthew McConaughey for two years...
...central agent of Labor's policy renewal. But he's not as well known in the arena as those from the Molotov faction: incendiaries Kevin Rudd, Wayne Swan, Julia Gillard and Stephen Smith. Once described as the Shadow Minister for the Medium Term, Tanner likens himself to a ship's engineer: out of sight, always working, covered in grease. Part of his role in Labor's strategy group is to cost proposed election promises and find existing programs that can be cut. As well, Tanner and others have stripped out those parts of the a.l.p. platform that were closely identified...
...meters The length of the Emma Maersk, the world's biggest container ship 45,000 tonnes The load of Chinese goods-toys, computers, decorations-carried by the Emma Maersk last week to Suffolk, England, in time for the Christmas season...
After figuring out how to grow healthy, versatile plants from small cuttings, preservationists started marketing baby trees to reduce the potential for black-market sales. The consortium has already sold 50,000 in Australia. Starting Nov. 15, the plants will ship to gardeners in the U.S. through the National Geographic Society for $99 apiece...