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Caught off guard by the mayhem and powerless to stop it, U.S. officials could only offer general expressions of optimism. "Obviously it's a blow," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told journalists as her plane crossed Iraqi airspace after a five-day swing through the Middle East, "but whenever someone tries to tear them apart, [Iraqis] find a way to get back together." Over the weekend, President George W. Bush spent an hour on seven phone calls to Iraqi leaders, expressing condolences, thanking them for their appeals for calm and urging them to continue working to form a new government...
Freshman point guard Drew Housman scooted past the Penn defense for a layup to give the Crimson its second lead of the overtime period, but Jaaber’s three triggered a 10-2 run that pushed the Quakers to a 74-71 victory at The Palestra Friday night...
...shot clock ticked down on Penn’s next possession, Quakers guard Brian Grandieri drove into the lane and crashed into a group of players as he let his shot go. Cusworth was whistled for a foul, his fifth, and Grandieri made one out of two to put Penn up two with 59 seconds remaining...
Trailing 62-59 with a minute to go, the Crimson tried to work the ball to junior guard Jim Goffredo for a game-tying three. But the Quakers hounded Goffredo, leaving the ball in Cusworth’s hand behind the three-point arc. Cusworth let fly and connected on his third trifecta of the evening to pull Harvard even and force overtime...
...guard back in the day, so I’m not going to say that I can’t shoot the ball,” Cusworth said. “Obviously coach would want me to have the ball close to the rim rather than out there, so shooting a three probably wasn’t the highest option on the play...