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Before that, he was an assistant at Maine for three NCAA tournament seasons—the 1999 national championship among them—and was 2-1-1 in four games (including an exhibition) as interim head coach in the fall of 2000 while the late Shawn Walsh underwent immunotherapy treatment for kidney cancer...
This being rural India, the 9 a.m. bus to Top Station didn't leave until a quarter to 10. In that sweltering interim I had plenty of time to stare at the pane of glass that separated the driver from the passengers. It was adorned with a large, gaudy image of Jesus, and above the messiah's head?just where a halo ought to be?was a sign that read, disappointingly, "No Smoking." A pity. One garners plenty of saintly patience traveling on Indian buses; a few hard drags on a Marlboro Light would be even better...
...think we needed a neutralist ... The warring parties are too inflamed." GYUDE BRYANT, who is known better for his business dealings than for politics, named last week to lead an interim government in Liberia...
...would be administered by an international body that could provide the troops to protect the sovereignty of both sides and could oversee the democratization of Palestinian political institutions. Kosovo might provide something of a precedent, with NATO troops guaranteeing security and the UN running the political administration for an interim period likely to last at least a decade. Of course such plans also have plenty of flaws, but they do point to the emerging reality that whatever succeeds the ?roadmap? is likely to be a set of proposals considerably more robust than those we have seen...
...fallout, Seoul's favored unification formula is a glacial process of investment and economic exchanges that slowly develop the North's economy, leading to peace, then a common constitution and parliament, and ultimately formal unification. Even if the Kim regime suddenly collapses, the think tankers favor installing an interim government in Pyongyang until the North can catch up economically...