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After Comeback Win, Mavericks Focus on Ending Series

By TOM SPOUSTA

DALASL — Kevin Durant held his shooting pose for an extra second, convinced he had just delivered the decisive blow in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals. As his 3-point shot swished and the Oklahoma City Thunder surged to a 15-point lead Monday night, Durant turned and mimicked pulling an imaginary championship belt across his waist.

The Dallas Mavericks know how fickle and unforgiving five minutes can be, though. That would be Durant’s last basket as the Mavericks stunned the Thunder with a 17-2 run to force overtime, then claimed a 112-105 victory, their fifth in seven road games in these playoffs.

With a 3-1 series lead, the Mavericks are poised to finish off Oklahoma City in Game 5 on Wednesday night at American Airlines Center.

“All of us involved with this team have been through a lot of these wars,” Mavericks Coach Rick Carlisle said. “We understand the position we’re in. We respect it. We’re very humble about it. We’ve got to get rested up and ready for Wednesday because that’s an opportunity.”

Jason Kidd, 38, led the Nets to two N.B.A. finals, only to be denied each time. Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry, both 33, are haunted by their only brush with a championship in 2006, when they led the Mavericks to a 2-0 lead against the Miami Heat, followed by a 13-point lead in the fourth quarter of Game 3, only to be eliminated in six games.

“It’s just a bunch of veterans with unique stories,” said Nowitzki, who scored 40 points Monday, including two free throws with 6.4 seconds left for a 101-101 tie at the end of regulation. “A lot of guys have been through a lot in this league and have been around forever. It’s a bunch of experienced guys that ultimately have one goal and came together and fought through some stuff.”

Once in overtime, the Mavericks’ huddles were calm and focused; the Thunder’s bench exuded panic and vacant stares. Nowitzki said the Mavericks talked about not wasting their comeback.

“We’re here and this is our ballgame, we’ve got to go for it; that’s what we talked about,” he said. “We’re just a veteran team trying to play off each other. We were finally getting stops and getting rebounds. We just ran down, we free-flowed. I don’t remember actually calling a play the last couple minutes. We just ran down and pick-and-rolled and free-flowed it.”

Only eight N.B.A. teams have rebounded from a 3-1 deficit to win a playoff series, and the Thunder’s body language did not translate into adding to N.B.A. history. Oklahoma City outplayed the Mavericks for most of the game, holding a 55-33 edge in rebounding and a 23-16 advantage in assists.

Although the Thunder shot 46.7 percent from the field, it was again stone cold from 3-point range, making only 2 of 13 attempts. In its two losses at Oklahoma City Arena, the Thunder was 3 of 30 on 3-point attempts.

On Monday night, the Thunder also committed 25 turnovers, led by Durant’s 9.

Durant finished with 29 points, but with a chance to win the game in regulation, Shawn Marion blocked his 3-point jumper.

“Shawn knows exactly what we need from him,” Carlisle said. “We just need his tenacity defensively. We need him to be wearing Durant like a suit.”

Including overtime, the Mavericks finished off the Thunder with a 28-6 run. Kidd’s 3-pointer with 40 seconds to play was the dagger that Durant thought he had delivered.

“Everybody asks questions about his age and all that other stuff, but the thing I would say to anybody is never underestimate greatness,” Carlisle said of Kidd.

Kidd finished with 17 points and 7 assists.

“I’m proud of Jason Kidd, the way he battles on defense, the floor game he leads for us every night, the steals he gets, and then the huge 3 in the corner in overtime to put us over the top,” Nowitzki said. “I tip my hat to him every night the way he competes.

“People still think that Kidd is not a good shooter, but over the years he’s proved everybody wrong. He made big shots for us this season ever since he got here. Anytime he’s open down the stretch I think it’s going in.”

 After the mavericks incredible ketchup of game three in the national championship they are thinking on how to terminate the series by winning at home .the series is now 3-1 in favor of the mavs today may 25th the effort of the team will be known through out Texas if the beat Oklahoma 

obama presses Israel to make strong choices

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May 22, 2011

Obama Presses Israel to Make ‘Hard Choices’

By HELENE COOPER

WASHINGTON — President Obama struck back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in a speech to a pro-Israel lobbying group on Sunday, defending his stance that talks over a Palestinian state should be focused on Israel’s pre-1967 borders, along with negotiated land swaps, and challenging Israel to “make the hard choices” necessary to bring about a stable peace.

Mr. Obama, speaking before a conference of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, offered familiar assurances that the United States’ commitment to Israel’s long-term security was “ironclad.” But citing the rising political upheaval near Israel’s borders, he presented his peace plan as the best chance Israel has to avoid growing isolation.

“We cannot afford to wait another decade, or another two decades, or another three decades, to achieve peace,” Mr. Obama said. The world, he said, “is moving too fast.”

Administration officials said it would be up to Mr. Obama, during an economic summit in Paris next weekend, to try to talk his European counterparts out of endorsing Palestinian statehood in a coming United Nations vote, a prospect that would deeply embarrass Israel. Some French officials have already indicated that they are leaning toward such an endorsement.

“He basically said, ‘I can continue defending you to the hilt, but if you give me nothing to work with, even America can’t save you,’ ” said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator and a fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan research group.

The appearance by Mr. Obama on Sunday punctuated a tense week in which he and Mr. Netanyahu made their separate cases about Palestinian statehood to American audiences. Mr. Netanyahu will address the same group on Monday and will speak before Congress on Tuesday at the invitation of Republican lawmakers.

In his speech, Mr. Obama did not directly confront Mr. Netanyahu, who, while seated next to him at the White House last Friday, rejected the proposal Mr. Obama made a day earlier that negotiations use Israel’s 1967 borders as a starting point.

Mr. Obama’s decision to stick to his position, albeit with strong reassurances about America’s lasting bond with Israel, is a risky one politically. Mr. Obama is just starting a re-election campaign, and Republicans are doing what they can to present themselves to Jewish voters as more reliable protectors of Israel than the Democrats.

Republicans moved swiftly to criticize his Middle East proposal. “The U.S. ought not to be trying to push Israel into a deal that’s not good for Israel,” the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Administration officials said Mr. Obama chose to confront Israel on the stalled peace negotiations after his aides calculated that given the historic upheaval under way in the Arab world, the United States and Israel would both benefit from being seen as taking bold steps toward ending the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians.

As Mr. Obama himself pointed out, his theme in the speech last Thursday was not extraordinary. American presidents, including George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, have consistently instructed their foreign policy aides to pursue an agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians using the 1967 borders, with mutually agreed land swaps, as a basis for talks.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, in fact, made such a proposal to the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in 2008, as the two sides rushed to complete a peace deal before Mr. Bush and Mr. Olmert left office.

But the 1967 border issue has always been privately understood, not spoken publicly, and certainly not publicly endorsed by a sitting American president.

When Mr. Obama did so last Thursday, he unleashed a furious response from Mr. Netanyahu. The prime minister’s office put out a statement in advance of his meeting with Mr. Obama the next day in which Mr. Netanyahu said he expected to hear certain assurances from the president.

“That was Bibi over the top,” one administration official said Saturday, referring to Mr. Netanyahu by his nickname. “That’s not how you address the president of the United States.”

Mr. Obama addressed his critics on Sunday, saying, “What I did on Thursday was to say publicly what has long been acknowledged privately.”

Mr. Obama did offer words of assurance. He repeated what the Israeli prime minister so objected to — the reference to pre-1967 borders — and challenged those who he said had “misrepresented” his position.

But, he said, “let me reaffirm what ‘1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps’ means.” His view, he said, is that “the parties themselves — Israelis and Palestinians — will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on June 4, 1967.”

“It is a well-known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation,” he continued. “It allows the parties themselves to account for the changes that have taken place over the last 44 years.”

Mr. Netanyahu, in his critique of Mr. Obama’s earlier remarks, had ignored the “mutually agreed swaps” part of the president’s proposal.

Mr. Obama’s remarks Sunday contrasted with those delivered a few minutes earlier by Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, who gave a no-holds-barred speech filled with applause lines for the assembled lobbying group delegates.

Administration officials argue that one way to try to derail the United Nations vote is to have a viable peace process under way between Israelis and Palestinians.

On Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu gave a more muted response to Mr. Obama’s speech than the one he issued last Thursday. “I share the president’s desire to advance peace, and I appreciate his efforts in the past and the present to achieve it,” he said in a statement. “I am determined to work together with President Obama to find ways to renew the peace negotiations.”

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, commented on the speech by telephone from the West Bank city of Jericho: “I am waiting to hear from Prime Minister Netanyahu. Does he accept the doctrine of two states on the 1967 line with agreed swaps or not? Before we hear that acceptance, we are just grinding water.”

the main idea of this article is that President obama talks over  a Palestinian state should be focussed on israels 1967 borders and how to make peace with them

6 weeks Narrative

 Well here i am writing again .Well this 6 weeks to me have been real great in first period i have 95 average for now.Well i believe i have that grade because i actually try and it is real fun its art the only thing i do not like is that   every time we finish something i end up with a stain of paint and its oil base and does not remove as easy.My second period is the worst period i have my cluster i believe that is real boring due to that they make us read articles that are real long and are boring.I also belive that they do this for our own good ,and to prepare us for college .Although its boring i believe i am going to pass my cluster.My third period is one of the best classes i have chemistry , one of the reasons i believe its a good class its because their a lot of people i know like Carlos.and its also good because its easy and they actually teach us the students something.My fourth period has been great Latin is and interesting language do to that most of the languages come from latin the 5 main languages that come from Latin  are French.Spanish, Portuguese.Italian and romanian.And the class is real easy because all the things we learn are either oral or in a movie. Your class itsw not easy at all we have to keep up dates and i am going to say the truth i can not meet up lines.even though i can not meet up lines i try t turn things in even if they are incomplete.I actually like your clss because you make learning sometimes fun like sometimes you come up with some weird a** facts.Right now i am hoping i get a good grade on this blog so i could get a high grade on your class.my 6 th period is my cluster again and you knpw what it is BORING.My th period is great Mr.conn is the best algebra II teacher in the world he is one of the teachers that teaches and actually catches my attention because he makes his own ways of teaching and he also comes up with funny jokes. My 8th period teacher needs to get FIRED because she is lazy and I have not learn anything in her class.People would actually say fuck u at her and she would be like nothing happened i believe that she is going to be one of the teachers that gets cut next teacher.well this is my narrative and hope you give a good grade

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6 week narrative

well the 3 rd six wees was afouly short .
well the 2 weeks of winter breake were the one that made it short.i believe that this week was te week that i learned lesson on . why well first of all the time really flew by and i felt like i did not learn as much as the past weeks.6th.6th period was boring creating a bill is hard but its boring as well researching the topic backing up your statements that real boring thats why i am going to 7th period algebra 2 its real fun and it makes me want to think and try more.Right now were dividing polynomials i am actually real good at it i am passing that class with an 89 but i think after he ads the extra credit points i will have a better grade period was boring creating a bill is hard but its boring as well researching the topic backing up your statements that real boring thats why i am going to 7th period algebra 2 its real fun and it makes me want to think and try more.Right now were dividing polynomials i am actually real good at it i am passing that class with an 89 but i think after he ads the extra credit points i will have a better grade. well my break wa real good due to the getting out of school. but sometimes i missed school why well because i did not see some of my friends and because most of the things i learned i forgot for instense  today at algebra class i forgot one of the simplest things i leartned in my 8 th grade year. also i got my PSAT scores and i got a great grade on critical thinking i got 78% higher than the rest of the sophomores on math 79% on weriting skills73%. i hope those grades help in the future.sorry it was so short but not much happened this 6 weeks

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Well the 6 weeks went sort of fast. It felt like it was yesterday when we started school.
this six weeks were nothing like lasts.we started more work and deeper in detail in class subject. like 1st period art we started at first drawing a cirle and out of no were that circle became a tunnel. fortunately i got a 97.My second period is real boring i wish that class had less lectures.Chemistry is boring but i am passing it.we started learning deeper details about the atoms and the periodic table all this sounds boring but its actually interesting .My 4th period Latin is real fun the teacher lets us see movies like the 300 as long as it has Greek or roman history on it. she thinks she knows about politics and she said that she is a republican and liked McCain to be the next president and the last election she chose Obama i truly dont know why she chose him,but i hope she had a good reason .Your class was the bestest class why well first of all we have fun while we learn like the history of Halloween no history teacher would of done that but you that was real creative.the second thing was the ancient and modern Olympics i actually liked that part were we played jeopardy it helped us understand and get competitive.The test we took today was hard next time i am going to study more.6th period was boring creating a bill is hard but its boring as well researching the topic backing up your statements that real boring thats why i am going to 7th period algebra 2 its real fun and it makes me want to think and try more.Right now were dividing polynomials i am actually real good at it i am passing that class with an 89 but i think after he ads the extra credit points i will have a better grade.8th period english is boring the teacher acts like if she was on crack (no offense). I think if i did nothing in there i would be passing and with the highest grade in there

immigration IN THE US

Illegal Immigration and Equal Rights 
Should immigrants receive the same tolerances that other minority groups have received in the past decades? Should their struggle for equal rights over- shadow the fact that immigration laws are ignored? Pro Amnesty and Anti-Immigration groups have different opinions about these issues The immigration laws that exist in the U.S are not the problem, the problem exist with the people who refuse to enforce them because they contrast the immigrant’s struggles with those of early equal rights movements. The simple fact that the immigration system in this country is broken comes as no surprise to Americans. America admits more legal immigrants than any other country in the world , however proponents of the immigration bill would argue that illegal immigration exists due to the limits placed on legal immigration. Anti-Immigration activists would argue that Americans have the right to set limits on immigration in the same way that other nations do. This being said it then becomes the government’s responsibility to enforce those limits.
   Immigration policy is a controversial but rarely debated issue in U.S. politics. Politicians usually do not take strong stances on immigration, and rarely does a candidate make immigration policy a key piece of his platform. However, the issue is very divisive and decisions concerning immigration will have a large impact on this country's future. Immigration discussions often evoke strong feelings due to the racial and ethnic issues involved. Often, those seeking to immigrate to the U.S. are part of racial or ethnic groups that are minorities in this country. Therefore when a president that runs on an election they always promise to have a reform so illegal immigrants could have the same rights as citizens and residents of the U.S.A

    “America was built by immigrants.” people from every corner of the earth have come to America. Immigrants left their home countries for various reasons. Some were fleeing religious persecution and political turmoil. some like Mexicans just came to '' EL NORTE'' (THE NORTH)  for a better life and for more opportunity they did not have in their country. I also understand that some Mexicans just come to the US to sell drugs but if the US patrolled and inspected more there would not be as many problems.

    At this time, the United States has allowed more immigrants to enter the 

country than at any time in its history. Over a million legal and illegal 
immigrants take up residence in the United States each year. Immigration at its 
current magnitude is not fulfilling the interests or demands of this country. 
With the country struggling to support the huge intake of new comers, life in 
America has been suffering tremendously. The excessive stress put upon the 
welfare system, overuse of the family reunification laws, and the exploitation 
of employment based immigration in the computer industry are reasons for 
immigration reform. 

  NOT ONLY ARE MEXICANS IMMIGRATING  CANADIANS, CHINESE ETC. ARE DOING IT AS WELL WHY DONT THEY CHECK THEM MORE