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...most exciting comebacks in Florida high school football history: With two minutes to go in a semifinal playoff game on Dec. 7 at Miami's Orange Bowl, the hitherto undefeated state champion Miami Northwestern Bulls were watching their season - and their ranking as the nation's top high school football team - slip away. The Deerfield Beach Bucks were leading 14-12 in the game, and had the ball on Northwestern's 1-yard line. But the Bulls not only kept the Bucks out of the end zone, they marched 99 yards with just one timeout left, converting two fourth-down...
...unanswered question of the authenticity of a series of possible Pollocks on display—that has brought the most buzz to the show.But to the show’s credit, the debate over the painting series doesn’t upstage the exposition of the artists’ hitherto unexplored relationship.CATALOGING CONTROVERSYCurated by Ellen Landau in collaboration with Claude Cernuschi, “Pollock Matters” is the first exhibition to display the paintings discovered in 2002 by Alex Matter, son of Herbert and Mercedes, and attributed to Pollock.The show leaves the puzzle unfinished—the exhibition...
...into bloodsport what a Nabokov character saw as an existential revelation. In The Defense the novelist wrote of one chess-obsessed character's epiphany: "...he had seen something unbearably awesome, the full horror of the abysmal depths of chess. He glanced at the chessboard and his brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness. But the chessmen were pitiless, they held and absorbed him. There was horror in this, but in this also was the sole harmony, for what else exists in the world besides chess?" With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...group is headed by a hitherto unknown commander named Umer Khalid. It refuses to disclose the backgrounds of the militants who have occupied the mosque - though one Pakistani newspaper reported that the men were from "banned jihadi organizations operating in Kashmir." Whatever the case, the group is media-friendly: the militants were happy to be photographed, and Usman says his men would be happy to escort foreign journalists from Peshawar to Mohmand Agency with full security...
...percent, and, through drastic spending reductions, reducing the national debt from 66 to 60 percent of GDP. In a reversal of roles that an American would find baffling, the so-called “right-wing” Sarkozy proposes to introduce desperately needed affirmative action programs to France (hitherto unknown in this welfare state) while the “socialist” Royal vigorously opposes them. Sarkozy’s opponents claim that his platform is “brutal” and that it will rend the French social fabric. Depressingly, French youth (especially those in the banlieues...