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Brown then made 11-of-12 from the stripe--part of a solid 29-of-35 on the night--for the 78-68 final...
...Woodbine and junior center Neil Yanke, who combined to shoot 12-of-12 from the line in the last five minutes, Yale scored its final 15 points on free throws. The Bulldogs made 19-of-27 from the stripe in the second after not attempting a single free throw in the first...
...definite sign of encouragement for Coach Sullivan was the Crimson's improved free throw shooting, which helped Harvard put the game out of reach. In the last 12:25 of the second half, 13 of Harvard's final 22 points came from the charity stripe. On the night, the Crimson shot 21-of-27 from the line, significantly better than the 31-of-57 clip it had been shooting in its last three games...
...Karmapa's flight caps a year in which the authorities in Beijing are facing growing discontent from religious believers of varied stripe. Besides the challenge represented by the widespread Falun Gong sect, which was banned amid national protests in the summer, Beijing has faced continued resistance from Islamic separatists in its westernmost provinces, and earlier this week China's leadership set a collision course with the pope by engineering the appointment of three officially approved bishops to the Chinese Catholic Church over the Vatican's objections. The Karmapa's defection may be a blow to Chinese efforts to legitimize...
...from scratch and then, with huge infusions of cash and a stunningly popular patriotic war in Chechnya, build it into a front-runner," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. The result, in which upward of 70 percent of voters appeared to favor parties backing presidential candidates of varying authoritarian stripe (both Putin and Primakov, remember, are products of the KGB), looks set to give President Boris Yeltsin his friendliest legislature since the collapse of communism. But Putin's bid to be the boss Russian voters clearly crave is based almost entirely on the war in Chechnya, where Moscow's troops...