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...Graham was able to get off because we didn’t cover down on weak-side help,” Yale coach James Jones said. “They got dribble penetration on the strong side. His man on the weak side came over to help out, stop penetration, and we’re supposed to get a cover-down by our guards, and the guards were not there...
Before Faneuil took the stand, the trial had been proceeding at a deadening pace. Bored with technical details about the securities industry, spectators contented themselves with divining Stewart's state of mind based on the few outward clues she exhibited: the succession of somber black pantsuits, the weak but polite smile she managed for news cameras, the strain that only occasionally surfaced on her heavily made-up face. When Faneuil finally appeared, a jolt of excitement was palpable in the courthouse. He proved such an engaging witness that he kept the room rapt. By the time defense attorneys...
Behind all the maneuvering on both sides was a growing sense of how much had gone wrong, how serious the cost, how great the risk if people in a democracy do not know who or what to believe. The idea that the U.S. might have gone to war on weak intelligence and a bad hunch damages not just the President's authority but the country's. "Our credibility is a precious national-security asset, and now we have to rehabilitate it," says Senator Evan Bayh, a Democrat on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees. "The American people understand...
...certain weakening is to be expected as the opposition converges behind a nominee, who gets a big boost of positive press coverage. "Just because they're out there calling us a liar doesn't make it so," says an adviser. "No one ever really thought they'd have a weak nominee, and they don't. But now we're in a debate about big ideas and big issues. This race isn't going to be about gay marriage but about the security of the country. It's not going to be like 1996 or 2000. It's about a giant...
...told me you’d given up drinking / to be with somebody you knew / and you tried to get into the Bible / But it never got into you.” John Henderson sings here with vocals of the same cut as Campbell’s: weak, battered, and timidly appealing...