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...winner of tonight’s match will visit No. 4 seed Springfield Saturday, vying for the chance to enter the league semifinals April 30 at Penn State...
...Founding Fathers would have been in for a shock had they seen Boston Common on April 15. Over 500 protesters wielding teabags and standards decrying taxes, spending, socialism, and fascism congregated in one of the more than 750 “tea parties” the nation witnessed that day. National estimates for the number of participants range in the hundreds of thousands...
Second, Jacob Zuma will be a controversial inheritor of Mandela's legacy. He faced charges of corruption for years in a case that was dropped in early April but may yet be revived. He was also once accused of rape, though acquitted after a high-profile court case. And whereas Mandela urged high-minded reconciliation and forgiveness in power, Zuma's appeal is populist and his supporters are regularly accused of inciting animosity or interfering in the institutions of state for their own political purposes. This all fits the pattern of a party whose moral authority has rapidly declined...
...Sept. 2007, German police foiled what they say promised to be one of Europe's most devastating terror plots - bomb attacks on "an unimaginable scale" in several major cities. Eighteen months later, on April 22, four young men - three Germans and one Turkish national - are going on trial in Dusseldorf, charged with conspiring to commit murder, plotting to launch explosive attacks and membership of a terrorist organization, the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU). With over 200 witnesses, the trial is scheduled to last up to two years...
...boats will sail together just off the coast of the historic port city of Qingdao, an armada of Chinese naval vessels, accompanied by 21 visiting ships from 14 different foreign Navies - the United States very much included. On April 19, the U.S.S. Fitzgerald, a 6,800 ton missile destroyer with the storied 7th Fleet, cruised into Qingdao harbor, a welcoming phalanx of Chinese sailors standing at attention dockside...