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...training crucial in accelerating his recuperation.“I’m personally sure that he worked harder this summer than anyone on the entire team,” said roommate and senior guard Drew Housman. Of all the work that Groszyk committed throughout the summer to strengthen his cardio endurance, gain muscle weight, and put back together his basketball game, the most difficult part for him was redeveloping his feel for the game.“The hardest part for me has been getting my rhythm back,” Groszyk said. “Shooting, passing, there?...
...nowhere to be found, under strict orders from their commanders to avoid confrontation with the settlers, the containing of whom was the job of the Israeli authorities - a job not done particularly effectively. Leaving those neighborhoods unprotected in the face of the rampaging settlers may undermine the PA and strengthen Hamas...
...pace of the one-liners in Wishful Drinking is a little relentless, but it's as valid a way as any of depicting the floodlit, perspectiveless world of fame where Fisher has spent her life. It probably didn't strengthen Fisher's tenuous connection to consensus reality when at 19 she became a pop-culture icon as Princess Leia in Star Wars. Fisher says that she hated Leia's Cinnabon hair ("Give me a hairstyle that further widens my already wide face!") and that George Lucas wouldn't let her wear a bra; instead, he made her tape down...
...idea of such guided coverage in the official media was first raised by President Hu in 2007 and given a fresh boost in June when he gave a speech pressing for the party to strengthen guidance of public opinion in both new and old media. "This new policy is happening because these incidents are happening more and more often and they realize they can't control the spread of the news," says David Bandurski, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project. Bandurski says the Chongqing case was a textbook example of the new policy, which...
...attack on Mumbai is a measured one: If it turns out the attackers came from Pakistan, they are very unlikely to have been sent by that country's government. So the last thing India should do is confront the government of Pakistan, or isolate it. That would only strengthen the hand of the extremists...