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...scorching offense, as the squad has maintained the highest field goal percentage in the league, a devastating .499 clip. To win, Harvard will have to cool the Bulldogs off, something the team failed to do three weeks ago.“They’ve gotten consistent 50 percent shooting from the four and the five spot most of the year,” Sullivan said. “It was a problem in our game, the field goal percentage got so high, and we weren’t protecting the rim at all.”The challenge will...
...table. Three conference championships during her career at New Trier Township High School outside Chicago, including titles in 2001 and 2002 when she captained the team. Five consecutive Illinois state titles with her AAU team. First-team All-State selection. Nike All-American.“She could shoot, put it on the floor, and she was a very smart player,” recalls Crimson women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, who remembers watching Franklin as a high school player and recruiting her to Harvard. “She had everything.” However, like...
...Senators offered a chance for Chertoff to shoot back. Chertoff explained that early in his tenure as Homeland Security chief, Brown wanted wide power to determine the use of federal grants that went to the department. Chertoff says he decided not to give Brown that authority and recognized that Brown, at that point, might want to leave the agency. "If you are going to stay,? Chertoff told him, ?we need your full commitment." Brown, according to Chertoff, said he understood the decision and was willing to stay in the job and implement Chertoff's ideas...
...Bush on Monday afternoon during an Oval Office meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, but left before reporters were allowed in for questions; Bush ignored any questions shouted his way about the incident. White House aides can be expected to say that the Vice President did not shoot Whittington, which suggests a bullet, but rather sprayed him with birdshot, a type of ammunition made up of tiny pieces of lead or steel...
...sticking with a politician and even if the vice president has indicated that he'll never seek office again, the birdshot episode is likely to be used by comics as a metaphor for a trigger-happy vice president who rushed us in to war-and can't shoot straight. These kinds of metaphors aren't usually fair. Gerald Ford was a talented athlete who was a star football player at the University of Michigan and coached at Yale. Still, he was lampooned as a clod because he tripped down a flight of airline stairs in Austria and was filmed falling...