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...pressure on Monday night - there were rumors that the entire team would be sacked if they came up short this time around - didn't seem to affect them, though. While the Russians bobbled and the American team bombed, the Chinese seemed to grow stronger as the evening progressed, even triumphing on the vault, one of their weaker events. By the time charismatic dynamo Li Xiaopeng landed a 9.712 vault, shouts of "China, No. 1" were bouncing off the walls of the Sydney SuperDome...
...Last month she had James, who plays guitar, take her to a nearby party for a jam session that lasted until 3 a.m. It was the first time either of them had left the house in months. James is openly worried about how deeply Ella's eventual death will affect him. "As hard as it is to go through all this," James says, "I'd never trade this time together for anything." --By Dan Cray...
...recruiting scandal that rocked the Brown Athletic Department didn't really affect the composition of the team and so the defending Ivy co-champions should be a tough Week Two test...
...Steve Earle/"Transcendental Blues" Speaking of Dukes, this rambunctious tunesmith's latest offering finds him striking a happy truce between his various, sometimes adversarial personae. Typically, Earle's affect has alternated between Good Steve and Bad Steve: On traditional and more introspective material, he tends toward the former, but when he rocks out he often adopts a much raunchier vocal delivery, as if singing like he's gargling with Valvoline will somehow boost his hardass cred. For the most part, Earle sounds at ease and unaffected on his most eclectic offering to date, allowing us to focus on the highly...
...plight of the Colombian campesinos, their extreme poverty and social immobility, does not appear to affect the plans of the United States government. The chairs of the House Government Reform Committee and the International Relations Committee have been ardent supporters of the military-style tactics of Colombian anti-drug units, tactics that include widespread aerial fumigation of drug crops. And so, when starving children and destitute farmers see an approaching UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, they do not praise their savior. Crop dusting might destroy one batch of drugs, but it obliterates the lifestyle of ordinary people struggling to survive...