Harris is among the league leaders in road scoring with an average of 26.1 points.
They ran to the side of the road, scores of people waving wildflowers or palm fronds or anything they could pluck from trees lining the route.
Looking more closely, I realized that I was sitting in the midst of a village; on either side of the road, scores of mud huts extended back into the trees.
Neither team led by more than 3 points for much of the period until the Mavs, who are 13-3 on the road, scored 7 consecutive points to take the lead for good.
Down the road, scores of documents litter the rubble of the camp, which has been so pulverized by American bombs that it is hard to tell how many buildings once stood here.
The image is a reaffirmation of a natural region that we know to be under threat, one which we hold dear as one of the planet's last wild places, and the photograph shows it to us as we like to imagine it: no roads score its land surface, no electrical pylons mar the blanket of forest.
The fact that all five major airlines had such middle-of-the-road scores highlights the mediocrity of the American air-travel experience.
In a ruined landscape, beside roads scored by tank treads and strewn with garbage, Niam Bakhiet, a city worker on half wages, was painstakingly trimming a hedge the other day.
Mrs. Roukema has won middle-of-the-road scores from Congressional watchdog groups on taxation and spending issues, and she reminds her constituents that she is next in line for the chairmanship of the House Banking Committee, if she wins re-election and the Republicans retain control of Congress.
