...ll-reference: “Age of player at the start of February 1 of that season.” By that definition, LaVine, Wiggins, and Towns will each be 21 this season. Tyus Jones will be 20 years old, Kris Dunn 22, and Gorgui Dieng 47. (Eds. Note: Just kidding–Dieng, in his fourth season, is classified as 27 by basketball-reference.com. ) Analyzing the data: Again, my approach was deliberately simple. To start out with, I just counted the number of 21-and-under starters for each team and season in order to find out how many teams had...
Are the Kids Alright (Right Now)? – A Wolf Among Wolves
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Schumer voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, and sponsored its predecessor, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. During a Senate hearing, Schumer explained that “it’s easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you’re in the foxhole, it’s a very different deal.” In certain cases, he said, “most senators” would say “do what you have to do.” Schumer also defended the New York Police Department’s surv...
Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
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Brock: The last Timberwolves game I attended was one game before Corey Brewer tied Kevin Love’s then-franchise record of 51 points (Mo Williams since surpassed that with 52 points in 2015). T-Pups fans: I am now accepting free tickets for the statistically-backed outcome of Wiggins dropping at least 52 points immediately after I visit the Target Center.
Andrew Wiggins Has Looked Great Even When Swaggy P Isn’t Guarding Him | some millennials
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Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist. Donald and Ivana Trump's Divorce: The Full Story | Vanity Fair
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist. Donald and Ivana Trump's Divorce: The Full Story | Vanity Fair
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Kathleen Virnig, a former Christian bookstore owner in St. Cloud who has organized events questioning the resettlement of Muslim refugees, says Trump is giving a national platform to concerns she and a group of active speakers on the issue have expres...
Donald Trump stirs the pot with comments on Minn. Somalis - StarTribune.com
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...ly the way we figure out who this guy is, is the fighting starts and he ends up tripping and falling down and then he just lies there and cries and refuses to move. (If I were in a movie platoon, I’d almost certainly be this guy.) The One Who Was Supposed To Be Something Else: He wasn’t supposed to be a soldier. The Screw-up: He screws things up. The Moral One: Also known as The One Who Questions The War. The One Wit...
Drafting the Perfect Movie Platoon
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Mike D’Antoni and James Harden both own well-earned reputations for eschewing defense. (Harden, in particular, will be happy about the death of Vine.) There is an obvious synergy of star player and coach here, with both enabling each other’s worst impulses. Less overt is how D’Antoni’s hire shines a light on the Rockets’ plans for the future. With ... The Inspirational Courage of Houston’s Awful Defense
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