Word: stretchings
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...trail went cold sometime in December 2001, when Osama bin Laden slipped away from the caves and forests of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan into the wild White Mountains that stretch along the Afghan-Pakistani border. The precise date on which he left Tora Bora isn't known. Pakistani intelligence claims that he was gone as early as Dec. 8, when a bungled operation by American special-operations troops and their local allies to flush al-Qaeda leaders out of the mountains had only just begun. But one former Taliban fighter says bin Laden slipped away when the besieging forces...
...they keep earning those frequent-flyer miles, there's no telling how cosmopolitan the NBA will get. Some observers think as many as half the league's players could be foreign-born by the end of the decade, but Commissioner Stern calls that a stretch...
Neither side could forge more than a two-point advantage in a back-and-forth second game, but the Knights eventually came alive, making the plays they needed down the stretch to stay just ahead of the Crimson. Ultimately Queens served leading 29-28 and an errant Harvard pass led to an easy, game-winning kill by Octave...
...understood that better than Merchant. This season, after three years of watching the senior classes before them play only for pride down the stretch, Merchant and his classmates had hoped to finally make winning part of the Crimson tradition as well. But it quickly became apparent that the time for Harvard’s first men’s basketball championship was not this year...
Although Harvard played superbly to begin and end the match, sandwiched in the middle was a stretch of mediocrity...