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...game with seven points, four assists, and two steals. “In the first half they were pressuring us a little bit and we sort of got frantic, but in the second half we executed better and got great shots.” The result was that Harvard stood just one game away from a spot in the tournament. And although she was happy with the way her team rectified its early mistakes, Delaney-Smith still prefers a slightly easier path to victory. “I would hope we don’t start that way tomorrow night...
...with his soft touch at the net.“Ashwin’s so good at keeping pressure on his opponents because he keeps coming forward,” Rueb said.Harvard’s other win came at No. 2, where junior co-captain Chris Clayton stood up to the bullet-like serves of his hulking opponent, 6’6” Mike Sroczynski, winning in two sets, 7-5, 6-4. Clayton put Sroczynski’s 120 mile per hour bullets to the corners of the service box back into play, and used his quickness...
...sneering e-mails about women they do not know, but it is much harder to insult people to their face once they have been identified as members of your House and have publicly expressed their personal concerns. It is hard for me to believe that Matherites would have stood up and disparaged a peer who just asked for a few hours of special access to the community?...
...Although the Socialists stood to gain five seats in Congress over the previous legislature, they failed to win the 176 seats needed to form an absolute majority. As they did in 2004, they will have to form coalitions with the United Left party and smaller nationalist parties from Cataluña and the Basque Country. But in a sign of the sharpening divide in the country, those smaller third parties like United Left and the Catalan Republican Left lost significant numbers of seats. The 2008 elections, it turned out, were the most bi-partisan in Spanish history, with the Socialists...
...began to build up around him. Articles were written about him. And a book. And a screenplay. He gave radio interviews in Moscow. Nevertheless, in the 1990s, there were few known photographs of him. In 2003, however, he agreed to an interview with the New York Times Magazine and stood for a portrait dressed in a nappy tan suit. In the interview, Bout tried to paint himself as a hard-working entrepreneur, vegetarian and nature lover who just happened to spend a lot of time flying into African conflict zones...