Word: sparking
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Klunick, a highly-touted recruit who saw a lot of time on the floor early in the season, missed much of the year with a hand injury. He provided a spark on the defensive end, using his quickness to generate steals and harass opposing ball handlers. His grasp of the offense will need to grow in the offseason, however, as he committed 11 turnovers in 63 minutes of play...
Captain Jason Norman finished the year with the lowest scoring average of any of the starters, but his status as the team’s defensive stopper and offensive spark will be difficult to replace. Norman relished the challenge of clamping down on the other team’s top scorer and turning steals into fast-break dunks, and he memorably shut down former Player of the Year Jason Forte in Harvard’s win at Brown...
...what happened next that has put the school on edge-and induced worries that al-Rubaiyi's death could spark a wider, bloodier conflagration. In the aftermath of the killing, mobs of Shi'ite students rioted at the college of pharmacy, blaming al-Hiti and his bodyguard-both of them Sunnis-for al-Rubaiyi's murder and vowing revenge. Al-Hiti and his bodyguard deny having anything to do with the murder. As the violence spread to a cluster of adjacent colleges, Sunni faculty members had to be evacuated by security guards, colleagues and students. When the rioters showed...
...Bush administration’s infamous approval of highly questionable interrogation tactics—which have led to some of the most disgraceful incidents of torture during the war—it seems reasonable that the official did not question the story. The claims about Koran desecration did not spark any questions of legitimacy because they seem commonplace in context of the administration’s past and current treatment of detainees...
Whatever the spark, after the disturbances broke out, the Pentagon reviewed details of its Guantánamo probe and concluded that investigators were not even examining the toilet-flushing allegation. Defense Department spokesman Lawrence Di Rita called Newsweek on May 13 to say the story was wrong. Four days later, he told reporters there were no credible allegations of Koran abuse to look into...