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...Storm steadily built upon its lead, essentially putting the game out of reach less than midway through the second half when it went up, 60-39, on a Centhya Hart jumper...
...Instead, upon opening their door, they found a giant elephant mascot sitting in the Wigglesworth entryway...
...counterproductive. It is a difficult issue to resolve, especially when, as was the case last year, a book written by a dead man was probably the most deserving of awards, and I don’t pretend to have a perfect solution. To choose to disqualify anyone based upon extra-literary considerations opens the door for all sorts of petty politicking—something the literary realm definitely needs no more of. However, the case is that, in the cash-strapped world of letters, it is more important than ever that the moneys within are channeled to the warm bodies...
...another dirty little secret of the trade: there are people in the world who are prepared to spend tens upon tens of millions of dollars to own a piece of alabaster they can never publicly acknowledge or show anyone but their closest friends. That's a fact. Ultimately what it comes down to is pure, unadulterated lust...
...March 8 confrontation between an unarmed U.S. Navy surveillance vessel and Chinese ships off China's Hainan Island, the site of a major People's Liberation Navy base, only reconfirmed the authors' notion of foreign states bent on encroaching upon China. "If Obama wants to talk about world peace, not sending troops abroad and so on, then what is the U.S. Navy doing in the South China Sea?" says Wang Xiaodong, a nationalist scholar who contributed several chapters to Unhappy China...