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...room to float - and no one floats further away from his defender, and still makes the shot, better than Kobe. Plus, when he's in the middle, Kobe's superior peripheral vision allows him to see the entire floor, and spot more open shooters if he can't fire away himself...
...choice of Brian Eno as co-producer. Eno, 60, was a founding member of Roxy Music but gained his greatest fame as the composer of such endearingly odd ambient albums as Music for Airports and as the producer behind U2's sonic leap on its fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire. He's a mystical figure in rock circles for, among other things, using hypnosis to help bands reach creative nirvana. Even his name sounds like a hallucinogen...
...Iraq U.S. Death Toll Hits Wartime Low Nineteen U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq in May, the lowest one-month count since the war began. The drop was attributed to a cease-fire between U.S. forces and Muqtada al-Sadr's militia as well as the troop surge that put 30,000 extra soldiers on the ground in the spring of 2007. Meanwhile, the decline in American casualties comes as Iraqi security forces take on a greater combat role. Coalition forces say 98 Iraqi security personnel were killed in May, along with 553 civilians. "This progress is fragile," a military...
...weeks leading up to the speech, Faust had drawn fire for her plans to criticize the policy from conservative and pro-military groups, including in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month...
...towering figure in the modern history of the University, Knowles led the Faculty for 12 years and oversaw some of its most ambitious recent projects, such as balancing its budget in the early 1990s, opening the Barker Center for the Humanities, and renovating Memorial Hall after a devastating fire. We hope that many in the University administration choose to follow his example of visionary and active leadership...