Word: wings
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Beam took freshman guard Andrew Gellert's cross-court pass on the right wing and launched a bomb from three feet behind the arc. He then took a late hit from charging Bears guard Travis Brown and added a free throw to open up a 73-58 lead and put an exclamation point on the weekend sweep...
Northeastern answered at 13:01 with a goal ofits own after a sharp penalty kill. Huskiescaptain Billy Newson darted down the left wing ona 3-on-2 that became a 2-on-1. Newson faked thepass and rifled the shot past Prestifilippo...
Repetition came even in the quotes from Bartlett's as prosecutors strained for gravitas. Representative Bill McCollum took us with him on his drive to the office as he contemplated the ice on the trees and the geese on the wing and his awesome task. The House managers call themselves historic when all we know for now is that what they are doing is rare. They are characters suited to the Guinness Book of World Records, not Edmund Morris or David McCullough...
...security threat. But today Americans have to consider what might be called Yugo-lombia, the possibility that the country could soon be cleaved into three volatile, Balkan-like states as a result of a boiling 34-year-old civil war. Much of the north is already ruled by right-wing paramilitary groups that are notorious drug traffickers. A dysfunctional federal government and a feckless military cling to the nation's urban midsection. And more than 20,000 Marxist guerrillas lord over the vast south, where they control Colombia's borders, make a fortune on kidnappings and guard the coca harvests...
This attitude isn't as rare as it may sound, nor as crudely right-wing. The left-leaning journal Utne Reader has published a booklet of essays that paints the feared millennial blackout as a cross between an Amish barn raising and a perpetual Earth Day. "As we prepare for Y2K, something surprising and quite wonderful is going to happen," writes Eric Utne, the journal's founder and the editor of Y2K Citizen's Action Guide. "We're going to get to know our neighbors." And not by stealing their larders at gunpoint, either. Emerging from the pamphlet's lofty...