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...though as royal advisors are anxious to point out, Abdullah has been the Kingdom's ruler in all but name since Fahd began his decade-long health decline with a stroke in 1995. Fears of a messy succession struggle subsided when immediately after announcing Fahd's death following a bout with pneumonia Monday morning, Saudi television also declared that Abdullah would become King and that he had named Prince Sultan, 77, the powerful head of the Saudi armed forces, who recently recovered from colon cancer, as his crown prince and heir apparent. Sources close to the Saudi leadership tell TIME...
...Marc Bekoff, an ethologist at the University of Colorado, always suspected there was something more going on. True, the posture happens most often at the beginning of a bout of canine play. But it also happens in the middle, and not randomly. And the more closely Bekoff observed dog behavior, the more he began to recognize other ritualized motions and postures--some of them so fleeting that he couldn't really keep track. So he began making videotapes, then playing them back one frame at a time. "The more details I saw, the more interesting it got," he recalls...
...truly feel sorry for the Parisians who are enduring this wave of bombings. But to some New Zealanders, this latest bout of terrorism is ironic. Was it not the French government that committed its own terrorist bombing against the Greenpeace ship in New Zealand last year? France strongly lobbied for the release of two of its terrorists, Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, just as the Arab extremists are now campaigning for the release of their comrades. Chris Aimer Dunedin, New Zealand Aquino's Road Show...
Bolstered by an intersession training trip to San Francisco, where the team played against adults, club teams, and, in an exhibition, the Stanford men’s squad, Harvard rolled into its annual bout with No. 2 Trinity on Feb. 3, looking fit and fiery...
...charm. Renée Zellweger makes do-good times or bad-burying her fears under a soft-spoken feistiness. And Paul Giamatti as Braddock's trainer-manager is a revelation. He's a chipper, wised-up guy who gets Braddock his comeback fight, then guides his rise to the championship bout with Max Baer, played with a menacing charm and sadism by Craig Bierko...