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...least they avoided a whitewash. By winning the final cricket test against South Africa in Sydney, Australia's team salvaged some honor. Still, in what is being mourned Down Under as the passing of an era of global dominance, South Africa beat the Aussies 2-1, Australia's first series loss on home ground in 16 years. During that time, the Australian team redefined the five-day version of the game - the only one purists believe merits the devotion they bestow on it - incorporating the sort of devil-may-care style of play hitherto confined to the one-day game...
...Cricket is on a roll. The economic center of the sport is now in neither Australia nor England, its birthplace, but in India, which last year hosted the first season of a loud, lurid and big-bucks league that features a short and furious version of the game. South Africa is on a roll, too, at least when it comes to sport. After the country won the Rugby World Cup in 2007, its cricketers have proved themselves world beaters. And for once, the description "rainbow nation" genuinely applies; South Africa's cricketers are white, black, mixed race and ethnically Indian...
...Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, a job that since the Cold War's end has been as much about diplomacy as about war-fighting. That's how he came to be in Obama's office in early 2005, giving the new Senator a "wave top" briefing on Russia, Africa and NATO's troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The conversation lasted an hour. Jones impressed Obama with his "broad view of U.S. national-security interests, from classic military power to training missions, energy security and diplomacy," says an aide who attended the briefing. Obama struck Jones as a "very, very good...
...billion securities fraud. Both Harvard groups, which were supported by the JEHT Foundation, received the amount they were promised before the philanthropic organization shut down. The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School received a total of $161,261 in 2006 and 2008 for its South Africa Apartheid Litigation project. “We’ve received the full amount. The grants are completed essentially,” said Clinical Director Tyler R. Giannini. The project aimed to seek accountability for U.S. corporations allegedly complicit in abuses committed by the South African government under apartheid. Giannini added that...
...combating disease in Africa: "The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in history ... The next phase of the program will support treatment for a total of at least 3 million people, the prevention of 12 million new infections, and care for 12 million people ... [Additionally,] The President's Malaria Initiative is on track to reduce malaria deaths by half in 15 targeted countries across Sub-Saharan Africa...