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...comes to body up and force him to the basket, they need to send him to the baseline. In the triangle offense, Bryant often receives the ball on the wing. There, he has two choices - drive to the middle of the floor, or towards the corner, where he can turn and dribble to the basket along the baseline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to (Sort Of) Stop Kobe | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...other hand, the baseline cuts off Kobe's passing angles. "If he's driving left on the baseline, and I'm behind him, he can only go left," says Deng. Turn his head one way, he sees the Laker Girls, and the late-arriving L.A. crowd. Turn his head the other way, a long-limbed defender like Deng is right in this face. Kobe can keep going toward the basket. But if Boston rotates the right way, Kevin Garnett, the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year, should be under the hoop, ready to help. Of course, even this often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to (Sort Of) Stop Kobe | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...think that in my case that the turn at the University level toward valuing pedagogical contributions helped,” she said. “But, if your department doesn’t value that [teaching], it might not get showcased at the administrative level that would let them pull you up on that basis...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Young Tenured Profs Shine in Research and Classroom | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...January 2007 interview with Trumpet, a Trinity-affiliated magazine, Wright recalled introducing Moss to the congregation. "I had prayed to God to send someone to God's church. God answered my prayer in Otis," Wright told the publication. "Don't think," he added in the interview, "I would turn over 36 years to someone I didn't have complete confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unretirement of Reverend Wright | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

When a group of men calling themselves Descendants of the Serbian Fighters From the 1912-20 Balkan Wars congregates for a ritual burning of the U.S. flag, most of the patrons of La Dolce Vita don't even bother to turn around. The morning sun is glorious on the terrace of the split-level bar overlooking the Ibar River, and the young men in black T-shirts are content to smoke their Marlboros and nurse their cokes, eyeing the more prosperous opposite bank of the river. They never cross the bridge, of course, because the Ibar marks the dividing line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost Mellow at Kosovo's Front-Line Cafe | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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