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...final buzzer saw the junior finish with 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting in 17 minutes. Despite his hot hand, Miller found himself on the bench down the stretch at the end of regulation and in overtime. Amaker cited freshman Keith Wright’s success on the boards (13 rebounds) as the reason for Miller’s absence. Miller had four rebounds.“We went with the kind of lineup that got us into overtime,” Amaker said. “We go with the lineups that are clicking for us and matching...
...meter height.Freshman Leslie Rea won the 3-meter competition with 258.45 points, and sophomore Jenny Reese was second in the 1-meter.“The divers have really stepped up,” Clarke said. “They’ve been crucial to our success this season.” Sophomores Christine Kaufmann and Katherine Pickard, along with Clarke, were the Crimson’s other individual winners.Kaufmann took first in the 200-yard butterfly, finishing in 2:05.63, while Pickard won the 500-freestyle in 4:54.04. Freshman Catherine Zagroba competed in both events, placing third...
...style African despots, liberation heroes who quickly turned on their own people once in power and presided over catastrophic corruption, incompetence and human rights abuses. His departure, even a mere dilution of his power, would herald the end of an unhappy chapter in Africa's modern history. Second, the success or failure of South Africa in resolving the crisis is seen as a crucial test of Africa's ability to manage its own affairs. Third, ending the political dispute in Zimbabwe is also the necessary starting point for pulling Zimbabwe out of humanitarian disaster. If credible power-sharing was achieved...
...been described as the Betty Ford Center for terrorists: Saudi Arabian officials boast that the Care Rehabilitation Center, outside Riyadh, has successfully deprogrammed scores of former jihadis, including more than 100 ex-inmates of the U.S.'s Guantánamo Bay military prison. As recently as last fall, Saudi officials claimed the program had a 100% success rate...
...Brigadier General Mansour al-Turki, spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, which runs the rehab program, claims the program's success stemmed from its guiding principle that jihadis are victims, rather than villains. "We think these people can be turned into normal human beings and be reintegrated into society," al-Turki told me when I visited Saudi Arabia during the Ramadan fast last summer. (Ironically, it was at the end of Ramadan that al-Shihri "disappeared," his father Jaber told the Saudi Gazzette newspaper...