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Rather than retreat to protect the backcourt against a Dartmouth squad that liked to run, McCaffery tore to the glass and ripped down her own offensive rebound amidst a crowd of hands vying for the ball. Before a Dartmouth defender could react to her inside position, McCaffery spun neatly toward the basket and dropped in a layup off the glass...
Internet message boards lit up with glee. The Boston Globe spun an entire story around his feat. And Fitzpatrick became slightly bewildered...
...data their way, [and] refusing to follow leads that didn’t serve their thesis.” But Wiener never explains what evidence was suppressed or what leads weren’t followed. He gives his reader no reason to believe that Gray, Katz, and Ulrich spun their data...
...Although ostensibly privatized and deregulated during the 1980s and '90s, NTT's fixed-line business remained virtually unchallenged. With a 99% market share, NTT used monthly fixed-line fees as a multibillion-dollar annuity stream to fund growth enterprises such as DoCoMo, its successful mobile-phone service spun off in 1992 (NTT still owns 64%). But two new entrants in the fixed-line industry have rocked the company's complacency. Last August, Softbank, a leading Japanese broadband provider, announced it would begin offering traditional home-telephone services at a discount. Two weeks later, KDDI, Japan's second largest mobile-phone...
Just 30 seconds later, Wallace took the ball at the left corner of the key, spun baseline, and was tagged with a charging call. That was number five. Hercules was dead...