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...slight edge in shots, 6-5, and corners, 3-1. The Big Red owned the second half. Seven minutes into the action, Horn was wide open and received the ball in the middle of the circle. Stone rushed out to challenge the shot and blocked the initial attempt. Off of the rebound Horn sent a pass to Kantarian beside the goal, but Stone recovered in time to kick the attempt away. Several minutes later, Kirnan scored off of a deflection for her fourth goal of the year. “[Kylie’s] been playing phenomenal. She definitely saved...
Politkovskaya's murder had stirred up strong public passions of disgust over what was seen as a blatantly political assassination. (She was fearless and one of the most trusted journalists on the subject of Chechnya. She had survived a previous attempt on her life when someone attempted to poison her as she prepared to cover the siege and massacre in Beslan in 2004, perhaps because of her ties to moderate Chechens.) Her funeral turned into a powerful outcry against the brutality of Russia's politics. However, the trial of two accused accomplices to the murder will most likely be held...
...allegation that, as a student under Communist rule, he informed local police on a young man is being greeted with dismay, and a little disbelief. The author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and other best selling novels has vehemently denied the allegation, saying that the allegations are an attempt at character "assassination" and that he did not even know the man in question - a Czech-born agent of a Western intelligence agency who was subsequently sentenced to 22 years in prison...
...those neighbors to revive the search for a political compromise. "Regretably, after four days of intense negotiations, we have failed to agree ... [and] therefore a deadlock has been declared," said the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) outside the talks venue in Harare. "There is an attempt to reduce the MDC to a meaningless position," he added, referring to the fact that Mugabe had claimed the key cabinet posts for his own party, and said this was "not acceptable to the MDC and the people of Zimbabwe." As far as Tsvangirai was concerned, that put the ball back...
...getting action except Ian—from his 14-year-old younger brother to his dad—Ian feels pressure to lose his virginity and rid himself of the perceived stigma. With Lance egging him on, Ian decides to drive from Chicago to Knoxville in a desperate attempt meet up with an internet acquaintance named “Miss Tasty.” Of course, almost any reason for a carpool of characters to drive spontaneously cross-country will tend toward the unrealistic. Usually, however, the actors’ charisma helps you look past the initial premise until...