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...deflected into the backcourt with five minutes to play and the game very much in doubt, Coleman outran every player on the floor to the loose ball. Diving to the floor like a linebacker pouncing on a fumble, he gathered it up and worked it to a teammate. A split-second later, as Pat Harvey’s three attempt banged off the rim, Coleman had already raced back underneath the hoop to secure an offensive rebound—one of his 21 on the weekend—keeping the possession alive...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life of Brian: M. Hoops Seniors Can't Come Home Again | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...metal detector--while suspected al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid slips onto a Paris-to-Miami flight with a bomb in his shoe--isn't making us safer. It's making us ridiculous for entrusting our security to an unskilled police force that must make split-second decisions on the basis of incomplete data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case For A National ID Card | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...metal detector - while suspected al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid slips onto a Paris-to-Miami flight with a bomb in his shoe - isn't making us safer. It's making us ridiculous for entrusting our security to an unskilled police force that must make split-second decisions on the basis of incomplete data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for a National ID Card | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...recover full motion in my arm. Already, my eye looks a bit better. But I winced when I heard the biker’s question. I remembered my impact. In my mind’s eye I saw that car door open in front of me again, that split-second before I was screaming in pain and in fury, at the door, the driver and the world that let this happen to me, now, right before I was supposed to go snowboarding with my family over break, right before my thesis chapter...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking Life By the Handlebars | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

...postgame interviews, both St. Lawrence’s Joe Marsh and Clarkson’s Mark Morris mentioned Kolarik with a smile, becoming hockey fans for a split-second and saying how much fun it is to watch Kolarik skate...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Tyler Kolarik `04 | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

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