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...Come March, the men’s basketball team has been known to fall off the map, going on slide after slide when it matters most...
...Here’s the kind of season Stack-Babich was putting together before that fateful slide into second base (for the record, he was safe): in 15 games, he amassed a .375 average, 31 total bases, and a .648 slugging percentage after eight of his 18 hits went for extra bases. In one four-game stretch in March, he had 12 hits in 16 plate appearances...
...Obama's civilian advisers fear a quagmire. But they know that some middle ground, between a "Central Asian Valhalla," as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates put it, and the current slide into chaos, has to be found. "We have to stabilize the military situation," said an Obama aide. "Continue to build up the Afghan army, and help the government to become more effective." In other words, hope that the disintegration of Afghanistan can be prevented while waiting - and hoping - for the Pakistanis to take effective action against the al-Qaeda and Taliban safe havens...
...estate slump after years of speculative excess. That's because Midwesterners owe more on their properties than left coasters. The average loan-to-value ratio in California is 70%, while Nebraska and Iowa clock in at 75% and 76%, respectively. As the recession deepens and home prices continue to slide, there are fewer and fewer places to hide...
...They had a sense of the urgency of their project; I think we live in a time in which there is a sense of irrelevance sometimes.JW: Either that period or the ’40s and ’50s. But even by that time there is already a slide in the excitement I think. The academy is beginning to take over criticism, for good and ill. But there’s something very exciting about being in London around 1910, just as modernism is about to take off—crazy Ezra Pound has come over from America...