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...team that struggled all year. Forward Monica Naltner (9.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg) should give the Quakers some credibility in the lane, but Penn lacks crucial experience and depth.Player to Watch: Joey RhoadsRhoads might be only 5’4, but Penn’s diminutive guard has a pure stroke and a knack for finding a hole on the perimeter.PRINCETON First team All-Ivy selection Meghan Cowher didn’t have quite the postseason her father, Steelers coach Bill Cowher, had last year. Bill won a Super Bowl, while Cowher’s Tigers fell to Dartmouth...
NAMED. Margaret Chan, 59, assistant director-general for communicable diseases at the World Health Organization; as the WHO's next director-general; in Geneva. A former head of Hong Kong's health department, Chan succeeded Lee Jong Wook, who died of a stroke in May. She was praised for her decisive handling of Hong Kong's H5N1 avian-flu outbreak in 1997. But during the 2003 SARS crisis that killed 299 in the territory, she was criticized for her slow response and her failure to investigate earlier outbreaks of the disease across the border on the Chinese mainland. During...
...Jerusalem Open House, organizer of the parade. Several fanatical rabbis say that such curses led to the death of Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who was killed by a Jewish extremist for signing a peace treaty with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and that another malediction caused Ariel Sharon to have a stroke several months after he pulled Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip. Hexes can be laughed off, perhaps, but Satat, who has also received death threats, is now guarded by a 24-hour police escort...
...chances to surprise in the league this year a boost.“He was definitely a fierce competitor,” senior center Brian Cusworth said. “He had that, not to use a stereotype, but that European game…he had a very nice stroke from the outside.” The loss of Balcetis is another piece of bad news for a Crimson squad that has suffered its fair share of misfortune since the second half of last season. After getting picked to finish second in the league in last year?...
...women and his pool; also several of his dollar bills, which are generously offered up for the camera’s perusal. It’s clear Jones prefers basketball to football. “Ballin!” goes the hook, and Jones does exhibit a nice stroke. He remixed the song for the Giants, but it’s the Denver Nuggets that his team—the Diplomats—most resembles. Seriously. First, there’s Diplomats patriarch Cam’ron, who was actually a standout on his high school basketball squad. He?...