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Harvard's game seemed to unravel around the two-minute mark. On the inbound, the ball flew over a jumping Peljto's head and into the Syracuse side of the court. McBride grabbed the ball and laid it in for a 66-58 Syracuse lead with 1:53 to go. The next Crimson trip down the floor resulted in a turnover and McBride, a 93-percent free-throw shooter was fouled once again. Sinking both ends of the one-and-one, McBride pushed the Orangewoman lead...
Zoellick emerged as the meeting?s savior after shepherding the last stage of the talks when many thought everything would unravel. He had already cleared a huge roadblock earlier on when he agreed to allow poor countries to waive the usual patent rules for life-saving medicines, facing down the powerful U.S. pharmaceutical industry. His initial pro-drug-company position was undercut when the U.S. considered breaking the Cipro patent during the recent anthrax scare...
After the 1999 Kosovo conflict, nato analyzed exhaustively its failures in information handling. Serb women were pictured dancing on the wing of a downed F-117 Stealth bomber before the U.S. Air Force even admitted its loss. It took military commanders four days to unravel why an Albanian refugee convoy at Djakovica was mistakenly bombed. nato learned painfully that speed and candor are crucial. But the Afghan campaign shows how lessons learned can be lessons ignored. Governments, too, abandon humility and lose their memories...
...immigrants suspected of terrorism indefinitely, in contrast to the current time limit of 48 hours. A coalition of civil libertarians and conservatives suspicious of big government has slowed the bill's progress through Congress. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy told TIME that "the biggest danger is that [terrorists] unravel the constitutional protections we've spent 200 years as a democracy to build." By last Thursday, however, Leahy was on the phone to Ashcroft, suggesting that staff members work through the weekend to iron out the remaining points of disagreement...
...funnier follow-up, this is the best take on the creepy rich since Fox's short-lived Profit (1996). Pasadena may offer few Champagne wishes and caviar dreams, but it addictively retells one of the oldest stories in the world: your family is the strangest mystery you will ever unravel...