Word: stripe
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...recipe for paranoid suspense. It's the story of a writer of celebrity lives - a magician's best-seller, for instance, titled I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered - hired to add some marketable pizzazz to the memoirs of Adam Lang, a retired British Prime Minister of the Tony Blair stripe. He's called in on this rush job because the previous ghost, Mike McAra, has died suddenly. Joining the ex-P.M. in a remote enclave on Martha's Vineyard, he is drawn into a controversy involving Lang's possible approval of torture on terror suspects. Soon, he thinks that...
...well as momentum—in the first half. The freshman also redoubled his efforts on offense and witnessed success drawing fouls while driving to the post. Although Casey shot just 2-of-6 from the field Friday night, he did his job at the charity stripe to rack up 14 points overall...
Casey was also extremely successful from the charity stripe, where he was 15-17 this weekend. That included a 4-4 stretch in overtime at Yale, carrying his team to a win when Harvard had to use four freshmen and a sophomore in its lineup after Lin and others had fouled...
With the Bulldogs forced to foul immediately, Giger was sent to the line on consecutive possessions. Blocking out the noise of an enemy crowd numbering 2,091, the sharpshooter went 3-of-4 at the stripe...
...second-straight evening, freshman Victoria Lippert led the way for the Crimson, posting a career-high 27 points. The rookie shot 9-for-15 from the field and a perfect 7-for-7 from the charity stripe...