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...tough first half, despite a spirited comeback attempt late in the second half. The Crimson was without freshman forward Keith Wright, who was sick. A starter in all seven games this year, Wright is second on the team with 10.3 points per game. He will be out indefinitely, a major blow for Harvard, who kept it close nonetheless against its talented hosts before falling away near the end. “It’s not really a positive, because it was a 15-point loss, but we were undermanned,” senior guard Drew Housman said...
...Occasionally, the film is enlivened by the guest appearances of familiar actors, sometimes cast appropriately (Lou Diamond Phillips as Mario Monje, Catalina Sandina Moreno as Che's second wife), sometimes not (Matt Damon as a priest-negotiator in Bolivia!?). But the major burden falls on its star, who nurtured the project for almost a decade. And Del Toro - whose acting style often starts over the top and soars from there, like a hang-glider leaping from a skyscraper roof, thinking there's nowhere to go but up - is muted, yielding few emotional revelations, seemingly sedated here. Except for one pungent...
...wondering why the world needs to come up with a new agreement to replace a pact that doesn't expire for another three years - well, that's U.N. speed.) And while U.N. officials maintained that Poznan set the stage for next year's deadline talks, most of the major issues - the division of responsibilities between rich and poor nations, tropical deforestation, sharing clean technology with developing countries - was effectively kicked to Copenhagen. (One exception were adaption funds - money to help poor countries counter the future impacts of climate change - with millions set to be released...
...other major disagreement is over whether to count absentee ballots that were mistakenly rejected by local election officials around the state. When the Franken camp asked for and got a list of why each ballot was rejected, it discovered some ballots were thrown away for something besides the four legally specified reasons. So most of the reasonable election officials of the Minnesota counties started sorting the rejected ballots into five neat little piles, in case the state canvassing board decided (as it did Friday) that the ballots should count. One of those fifth-pile votes, the Franken camp discovered, belonged...
...Asked about the challenge of running against the first major African-American candidate, Davis minimized the issue. "I don't think John McCain or our campaign would have conducted ourselves any other way regardless of who the opponent was," he said, appearing to contradict the assessment of the campaign's ad man, Fred Davis (no relation), who has described in other interviews an atmosphere of extreme caution over racial issues that hampered the campaign's message on topics like Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright...