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...We’ve got a couple of strokers, and she’s got a tremendous stroke,” Caples said. “And she knows she can come off the bench to do that. It’s a pretty spectacular shot...
...defense does not need to undergo a cataclysmic change. It does not need to be spectacular. Rather, it just needs to generate enough stops to get the ball to its offense, something which it struggled with at (most) times last season...
...barrel, easing the pressure on regional economies. He sees Asia's GDP growth contracting from about 7% this year to just under 6% in 2005?still an eminently respectable performance. But in a world kept constantly on edge by terrorism, the threat of a price shock triggered by a spectacular attack on energy infrastructure or by further instability in the Middle East can't be dismissed. Says the foreign executive at the Guangdong power plant: "Oil is our biggest expense?and our biggest uncertainty...
...with some other high-profile art-theft cases, the outcome is still in doubt. Last year two men posing as tourists stole Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna with the Yarnwinder from Drumlanrig Castle near Dumfries, Scotland. That case is still unsolved. So is the most spectacular art robbery in the U.S., the 1990 break-in at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Thieves disguised as policemen made off with 13 pictures, including a Manet, three Rembrandts and Vermeer's magnificent small canvas The Concert...
...radical Islamists, and putting the Islamists in the driving seat. Having failed to drive Russian forces out of Chechnya via guerrilla warfare, the rebels have resorted to a wider offensive in neighboring territories such as Dagestan, Ingushetia and Ossetia, and have also placed a far greater emphasis on spectacular long-distance terror attacks in Russia proper...