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...seen this act before. Talented players thrown together on the same team, quick fixes. So often it fails. Why has this worked so far? Ray Allen: First and foremost, it only works when you have guys who have been on teams that have struggled. The three of us have carried teams in the past, and the only thing we need to prove is that we want to win a championship. Kevin Garnett: We've all played on lesser teams. But we've also played with some premier players. And the way it works is that...
...Trouble with Amy I applaud Josh Tyrangiel's defense of Amy Winehouse in his article "Trouble Woman" [Feb. 4]. She is a rare talent, and her music is a wonderful combination of Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, with a little touch of Otis Redding thrown in. She would have been very much at home at Stax Records. It's troubling to read about Winehouse's high jinks in recent months. Despite her enormous gifts, she has inner demons and struggles. However, I still root for her because, as is evident on Back to Black, Winehouse is aware of them...
...that Ukraine's own national oil and gas company should be put back in control of the gas pipeline. But Yushchenko has yet to issue a presidential decree on the matter, and he accuses Tymoshenko of provoking Gazprom's backlash and pursuing her own interests. "Politics are being thrown big way into the Ukrainian gas market, I'm afraid," he told 1+1 Ukrainian TV station Thursday. "These politics bring along corporate interests...
Will having Dale Earnhardt Jr. as a teammate cut down on the number of bottles and cans thrown at you when you win at Talladega this year? -Eric Mason GUNTERSVILLE, ALA.I hope not I know NASCAR doesn't want me to encourage people throwing things, but I want his fans to be as passionate as they have been...
...Behind the new urgency in Washington and Brussels are apparent gains made by the Taliban in Afghanistan. In the last year, the Taliban launched 140 suicide bombings, the most since the group was thrown out of power in 2001. Attacks with mines and IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, increased 69% over the same period, according to NATO. Opium production is on the rise. An independent study co-chaired by retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Jones and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Thomas Pickering warned that a failure by the Administration of George W. Bush to obtain more international...