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...stabilizing effect of the defense held the team together as the Crimson utilized all three of its goalkeepers—tri-captain Katie Zacarian, junior Aliaa Remtilla and junior Anne Haig—in the shutout. Each had two saves and was helped by a stout supporting cast...
Praveen Kumar, a stout, shabby-looking bookseller who squats next to his wares in a dingy corner of New Delhi's Connaught Place, prides himself on giving customers hefty discounts on their favorite British and American best sellers. The 45-year-old former bookbinder peddles American author Irving Wallace's The Fan Club for 110 rupees ($2.40), about 15% less than the publisher's recommended price. Of course, Kumar adds with a sigh, that's nothing compared with the discounts he offered in the good old days, before India's recent crackdown on pirated books. Kumar previously ran off dozens...
...short supply. Gilligan defended the basic thrust of his reporting, but admitted he had overstated the case against Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications chief, for "sexing up" the September dossier on Iraq's weapons. BBC managers, reeling under a ferocious assault from Campbell, looked hapless as they described a stout defense of Gilligan mounted without checking the foundations of his report. Excerpts from Campbell's diary released last week showed how eager he was to "out" Kelly after he advised his bosses he didn't think what he told Gilligan could possibly be the source of the "sexing up" claim...
Andrews and the Crimson showed flashes of the team that competed in last year’s NCAA Tournament, however, accomplishing something that no one had yet done against the stout Terrapin defense—taking the lead...
...with the results. "Stability is adequate, not excellent, and the maximum speed is about 7 1/2 knots. She has a terrific motion and doesn't pitch or roll." The ship that he and Assad built is a funny-looking duck, with masts like narrow pointed ladders, canted sails and stout bamboo outriggers. The ship's captain, Alan Campbell, a Scotsman now living in Tasmania, recalls his first impression: "Some ships, when you first see them, you're not sure which end is the front and which is the back. When I first saw a picture of this ship, I wasn...