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...slick feed from Housman to a wide open Stehle underneath the hoop led to a Crimson layup with one second left in the first half, as Harvard took a 31-21 lead into the intermission. It was the last of Housman’s four assists in the opening period. The freshman guard added 11 points during the opening 20 minutes...
...over an environmental disaster. Official reports gave no details on Xie's role in government decisions to withhold information from the public about the river contamination, which resulted in a four-day shut-off of water for more than 3 million people in the city of Harbin. The poisonous slick, expected to reach the Russian city of Khabarovsk on Dec. 15, has also contaminated water supplies in at least five cities downstream of Harbin...
...Slick and pretty, Chris Wilton (Rhys-Meyers) is an ex--tennis pro with the schemer's gift of diffident charm: he seems to need so little that the upper class lavishes its largesse on him. What he wants is to be rich, so he weds Chloe (Mortimer), an heiress. But he also loves danger, as incarnated by a fellow outsider, luscious Nola (Johansson). "What I have is sex," she observes. "No one's ever asked for their money back...
...extremely corrupt system in which we, the average consumer, are the primary benefactor. “Syriana”’s success depends not on box office receipts, but in its power to make its viewers think twice about their own behavior while illuminating the slick inner workings of the oil industry...
...reason that officials in northeastern China decided not to announce that a 50-mile slick of toxic benzene was headed downriver toward the city of Harbin earlier this month was their fear of damaging tourism and investment in the region, sources tell TIME. Instead, as the potentially lethal spill approached the metropolis of 10 million people, the city said in an online statement that the entire water supply was being shut down for "water main maintenance and repair...