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After captain Brady Merchant failed to convert on a runner and senior center Brian Sigafoos couldn’t sink the put-back, Prasse-Freeman snatched up the loose ball eight feet to the right of the basket. He then drained the game-winning jumper with two seconds left to give the Crimson...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prasse-Freeman’s Lone Field Goal Lifts M. Hoops | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...last May. "This ship never should have sunk, and the spill should have been contained." The crew's deliberate flooding of empty tanks on one side of the hull to get the ship back in an upright position created far too much stress, says Wade. "After that, the final sinking could be easily predicted. Its death warrant was signed." And the Spanish authorities, he contends, exacerbated the effects of what should have been a minor oil spill by refusing to give the damaged vessel permission to dock in a sheltered area. "It leaked over 290 km of coast instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Coast | 11/24/2002 | See Source »

...That means splendor," is a typical bit of sometimes overly-didactic dialogue. Moore delights in revealing how everything ties together, sometimes leaving the reader feeling lectured. Even so, he is enough of a storyteller to never let us go too long without some adventure. Issue 16 has Promethea perilously sink to the bottom of a literal ocean of emotion. In issue 18 she slips into the anti-Kabbalah system of Qlippoth where she encounters the demon Asmodeus. In this world of rage and hate, he appears to her as a giant spider. Then, with a typically clever bit humor, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pow! Biff! Enlightenment! | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

...junk--so these bonds are a good buy now, offering 9.5% or so yields in intermediate maturities. But seek safety in numbers, says Payden. Choose a fund that holds at least 75 or so different bonds rated no lower than Ba. Even if one or two of the bonds sink, you don't go down with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fed Cuts Both Ways | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

When Bond first introduced himself onscreen in 1962, Britain's geographic empire was breaking up, but its cultural one was burgeoning. In the prole-chic era of the Beatles and Carnaby Street, of kitchen-sink realism and blue-collar movie stars, Bond was at best a blithe anachronism--a specter from the early postwar era, when spies dressed for dinner, and class was a matter of the right accent and breeding. Politically and culturally, the impossibly suave Bond was curiously old school, even if that school was Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Man With The Golden Run | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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