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Time and time again last year, it was Crimson guard Patrick Harvey who made the big play—a steal off an inbounds pass, a running jumper through the lane, a pair of timely free throws—to pull out an improbable...
...Sensoji temple, where you can check your odds of landing the big business deal by buying a fortune. Slip Y100 into the slot and shake a metal can until a numbered stick pops out. Ask a bystander to read the Chinese characters, match it to the correct drawer and pull out a fortune with English translation. The wise words on mine: "Getting a beautiful lady at your home, you want to try all people know about this...
...campaign. The war's chief salesman, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, reiterated on Friday that the U.S. has no territorial designs on a land whose terrain and people sent two empires packing in recent centuries. Once the U.S. decapitates al-Qaeda, the bulk of the American military force will pull out of Afghanistan. "All we need," an Air Force colonel told TIME Thursday, "is for someone to point their finger in the right direction...
...that life across in a children's novel without disturbing the children that you're writing for? Ellis: I'm not terribly worried about disturbing the children that I'm writing for. I think that good writing should be disturbing and if you're lucky you're able to pull it off well. I wrote the book because I wanted to pay tribute and honor to the children who are involved in that situation. Children live in very dangerous situations in many parts of the world and I wanted kids in North America to know what was going...
...water except for a black, stinking roadside ditch that bears all the plastic wrappers, oil, excrement and soap from the city and daily carries off camp neighbors who starvation and exposure do not take away. Then imagine your reaction as two well-dressed men, one a foreigner, pull up in a taxi, stride over to your hovel and start asking questions. Your name, how you came to be here, what it is like watching friends and family dies and whether, really, you have any hope at all. You'd think: "Foreigner." You'd think: "Money." You'd think: "Salvation...