Paul Pierce is a shooter, so he does what shooters do and he thinks the way shooters think. All the time. Even after missing his first 10 shots of the night. "I was getting great shots, man," he said. "I thought something was wrong with the rim, not with me." Pierce shrugged off his shooting slump and scored 16 points in the fourth quarter, including seven straight to put the…

Sitgraves said that the men, who are each fighting deportation and have been housed at the detention facility between two and 4 1/2 years, did not pose a danger or a flight risk.His decision stemmed from lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Raymond Soeoth, Amadou Diouf and Victor Martinez.The ACLU charged in the suit that the Department of Homeland Security failed to abide by a Supreme Court decision that immigrants cannot be held longer than six months without being given a chance to be freed on bond.”We’re thrilled,” ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham said. He was assigned to Europe for two years, and when his mother, Sally, visited him in Italy, she said she found him focused, “working out, swimming and running,” so he could reenter the SEAL program.For Monsoor, it was his chance to join one of the nation’s elite forces, she said, adding that when he finally graduated, it was her son’s and the family’s proudest moment.The 25-week Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training in Coronado, Calif., is one of the most grueling training programs in the military, and the dropout rate exceeds 50%.As one of the U.S. He calmly told reporters on Friday: “France has said they’d send some troops. On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow acknowledged that “it’s going to take some time” for disarmament to occur.A delay in confiscating Hezbollah’s weapons need not be fatal to peace if Lebanese and international troops quickly gain control of southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah fighters move north to a point where they can’t threaten Israel.There are signs of progress.

HAVING written the musical “Avenue Q” with the songwriting team of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, I’m glad none of us knew what lay ahead once we were done. The show’s two putative leads, Jack the doctor (Matthew Fox) and Kate the former bank robber/fugitive (Evangeline Lilly), weren’t even in the episode.Shannon’s death, in this regard, was the opposite of a slow, dramatic build to a monumental payoff, like the death of Adriana on “The Sopranos,” which played as gut-wrenching elegy; despite her mob boyfriend she was an innocent, and yet you understood, from the bad guys’ point of view, why she had to be rubbed out.But “Lost” is more for the brain than the heart; it’s an exotic puzzle, a video game with great visuals that could potentially take over your life. Those contracts go into effect when they turn pro.*Forward Scott Thornton, out seven weeks with a broken left wrist, revealed Thursday that he had surgery to place two pins in the wrist two weeks ago.chris.foster. Perry worked in a nearby computer store and exhibited just the right combination of geek-speak and cool detachment to make me feel instantly at ease. Even in the lightest episodes, the Tijuana-born graduate of UC Irvine’s highly regarded creative writing program is incapable of false or flimsy storytelling.

Richard Ells of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, adding the teen said it was an accident.The boy called 911, but Oliverio, 36, was dead when paramedics arrived at the Waters Drive home Monday afternoon, authorities said. Apply a high-concentration product twice a day to nail fungal infections. Also, a look at PGA career grand slam winners and comparing Woods and Jack Nicklaus at the same point of their careers.MOST MAJOR TITLES*–* Jack Nicklaus…18 Walter Hagen…11 Tiger Woods…10 Ben Hogan…9 Gary Player…9 Tom Watson…8 Bobby Jones…7 Arnold Palmer…7 Gene Sarazen…7 Sam Snead…7 Harry Vardon…7*–**CAREER GRAND SLAMS*–* Jack Nicklaus (18 titles) * Masters: 1963, ‘65, ‘66, ‘72, ‘75, ‘86 * U.S. On Sunday, police recovered 17 unidentified bodies in Baghdad.Sadr’s cooperation has been crucial to the plan. That is enough.”Some outside experts say that the next five years of scheduled shuttle flights also pose substantial risks.NASA has spent the last 29 months undertaking a massive effort to fix the specific problems with debris that caused the Columbia shuttle accident in 2003, but it has deferred some potentially critical safety and operational issues.Though experts are confident that the agency has fixed the immediate problem of foam and other debris that could damage the orbiter during launch, they say the agency has not made investments needed to modernize and upgrade many other key shuttle systems.”If we are going to fly the shuttle, we should improve it,” said Richard Blomberg, former chairman of NASA’s outside safety advisory panel.In the past, NASA has foregone safety upgrades based on plans to quickly build replacement vehicles, a tendency that the panel that investigated the Columbia disaster criticized as one of the factors that had eroded safety over the years.NASA started and then abandoned several efforts to build replacements, consuming billions of dollars.Blomberg suggests modernizing a number of systems, including improving the main hydrogen-powered engines and designing new solid-fuel boosters that would enable the shuttle to reach orbit even if it loses some of its main engine power.Others have suggested the shuttles need new auxiliary power units and ground launch computers at the Kennedy Space Center.NASA is hoping to maintain an uninterrupted American presence in space by pushing up development of the Crew Exploration Vehicle.Griffin wants to see the craft built well before its 2014 deadline.But some critics say such ambitious schedules are unrealistic and contradict decades of experience in how long it takes to build space vehicles.