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...street snacks: fermented tofu, fried wontons, grilled mushrooms and "coffin cakes," the local version of pot pies. It's all good, but the people watching is better. Off the main drag, an elderly man squats beside his own low-tech incarnation of an ice cream truck-a weather-beaten bicycle with a jury-rigged cooler lashed to the back. He rings a bell and awaits his next customer. But he looks in no hurry; in time, they will come...
...game was as advertised on Saturday against Columbia’s Jared Drucker, who had also beaten Kumar in the past. In winning the first set 6-1, Kumar demonstrated the full range of his game, turning seeming passing shots into drop-vollies at extreme angles, pounding goundstrokes to the deepest reaches and farthest corners of the court and capping the whole performance with two aces on his last three serves. He lapsed only briefly in the second set, getting broken once at the end of the set to lose...
...Harvard men had never beaten Stanford, one of the most venerable Division I tennis programs, boasting 17 NCAA championships since 1973. Though the Cardinal has been struggling this year, the Crimson was excited to rise to the challenge from the opening serve...
...Nobody is safe in Zimbabwe. There is no security, no rule of law. I am praying for my country." NELSON CHAMISA Zimbabwean opposition spokesman and M.P., after he was attacked and severely beaten by eight men alleged to be members of President Robert Mugabe's government intelligence agency
Tsvangirai was beaten after being detained at a protest rally in the capital, Harare, on March 11. Condemnation came not just from the usual quarters such as Britain and the U.S. South Africa, which has long advocated a softly-softly approach to Mugabe, finally issued something akin to a reprimand, calling on all parties to respect the rule of law. (In private, the language is understood to have been more forceful.) The current chairman of the African Union, the Ghanaian President John Kufuor, called Zimbabwe "embarrassing." These rebukes are mild, but compared to past silence or support for Mugabe, they...