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Despite graduating their leading scorer from a year ago, Tyrese Rice, and carrying an injury to their talented wing, Rakim Sanders, the Eagles have managed to post an impressive 73.8 points per game...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Look For Repeat of Last Year | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

Boston College is led by a duo of wing players, 6’6 junior Corey Raji and 6’3 sophomore Reggie Jackson, both of whom average at least 15 points and nearly eight rebounds per game...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Look For Repeat of Last Year | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...Their wing players] are big and strong and physical, so we’re going to have our hands full,” Amaker said. “Our perimeter and our guards are really going to have to play good post defense...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Look For Repeat of Last Year | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

Outsiders know relatively little about al-Shabab - Arabic for "the youth," also spelled al-Shabbab. The group is believed to have formed in mid-2004 as the military wing of the Islamic Court Union, a radical group that controlled much of Somalia before being ousted by the Ethiopian army in a U.S.-backed invasion in 2006. (Somalia has been without a strong central government since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown by warlords in 1991. Conflict in the Horn of Africa nation - one of the world's most lawless - has killed more than 19,000 people in the past three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Shabab | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Morales sailed to victory thanks largely to that indigenous cohort, which is concentrated in Bolivia's Western highlands and makes up about two-thirds of the country's population. Like Hugo Chávez, his left-wing counterpart in Venezuela, Morales has lavished unprecedented social programs on the poor, including free medical care, stipends for new mothers and the elderly, and a massive program for literacy that includes payments to low-income families who make sure their children attend school. "Evo knows what it's like to be like us," said Ilda Condori, an indigenous voter waiting outside a polling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morales' Big Win: Voters Ratify His Remaking of Bolivia | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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