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That outcome had taken weeks of negotiation. When Israeli and Palestinian authorities consented to the deportations as a way to defuse the standoff, Israeli hard-liners and Palestinians of every stripe complained that it was a sellout. But the situation had grown desperate. The city of Bethlehem had been in lockdown since April 2; food inside the church compound had virtually run out. Eight Palestinians had been killed by Israeli gunfire, and an Armenian monk had been wounded by an Israeli sniper...
When Scott hit two free throws to put Stanford ahead, 63-62, with 3:58 left in the game, it became evident that the contest would go down to the wire. After Scott sent the partisan crowd of 5,137 into a frenzy with two more from the charity stripe one minute later, the Cardinal looked like it might be able to stave off the scare from the Crimson...
...polemicist. I mean, if you open up the Cornel West Reader or Race Matters or read any of his op-eds, he’s saying things that—while they aren’t utterly loony—they are of a certain extremely left wing stripe that is—I mean it’s a polemic. I like polemics, there is nothing wrong with writing polemics—I hope, for my own sake. But the point is that you are going to build up a certain public image, and it just seems that...
...blemish on the Harvard victory was poor free throw shooting. The Crimson shot just 45 percent from the charity stripe after coming into the contest with a 77.2 conversion rate, third best in the nation...
...black turban, tipped with grey, a cardigan and a brown pin-stripe waistcoat, Rais told us it was his Islamic duty to "respect you and give you as much hospitality as we can". He then fudged our first question about no longer having power, choosing instead to relay how he had twice met interim government leader Hamid Karzai to speed the transfer of "Taliban power to Karzai." But he happily confirmed his new arrangement with the government, under which he surrendered those weapons he had at hand and vowed not to protect "any of the most wanted people who come...