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With two games left in this qualifying phase, the North is now in pole position to return to the global stage along with its southern neighbor. Iran, on the other hand, is floundering behind the Koreas and Saudi Arabia, and will need a miracle to make it to South Africa next summer...
...they were the pride of the continent and the darlings of football fans around the world. In the 1966 tournament held in England, their side of amateur players - given 1,000-to-1 odds of winning the competition - made it to the quarterfinals, famously beating European powerhouse Italy along the way. It's a feat that was not matched by any Asian country until the 2002 World Cup, when the hosts, South Korea, reached the semis...
...propelled early on by a search for spiritual nourishment, which led her far beyond her Pentecostal roots. She was attracted initially to Eastern religions and Evangelicalism, until her family moved to a predominantly Jewish suburb of Cleveland. Curious about the mezuzahs in the doorways of neighboring homes - along with other unfamiliar Jewish customs - Stanton turned for guidance to a Catholic uncle who occasionally worshipped at a local temple...
...might make sense for Congress to turn over that power to an independent agency, something along the lines of the Federal Health Board proposed by former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, who had been Obama's choice for Health and Human Services Secretary until he withdrew his nomination amid a controversy over unpaid taxes. Conservatives charge that this would put Washington in the middle of decisions that are best left to doctors and patients. But would Americans really find a faraway government bureaucrat any more objectionable in that role than a faceless private insurance company that makes those decisions...
...area known as Little Camp where Elie and Bertrand were sent as boys. In fact, at the place that commemorates this camp, there is a photograph in which we can see a 16-year-old Elie in one of the bunks along with the others. We saw the ovens of the crematorium, the guard towers, the barbed wire fences, the foundations of barracks that once held people in the most unimaginable conditions...