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After a 6-2 second set win, Choo broke Smith's first service game in the third set. He then held during a long service game, and Smith was broken. The final score...
...shooting, the 15th incident in which a black man was killed by city police since 1995 and the fourth such incident since last November, strained relations in Cincinnati beyond the breaking point. On Monday evening, riots broke out in Over-the-Rhine, the impoverished, primarily black area where Thomas lived. The unrest spread to other neighborhoods and intensified Monday night, when police attempted to quell the violence with rubber bullets, beanbags and tear gas. As of April 14, a week after the shooting, more than 60 people had been injured and over 25 had been admitted to a hospital...
...thing I hated most about the class was that at the very end, while everyone was resting for a few minutes in the stillness of Shavasana, the corpse pose (designed to quiet the mind), Leah broke into song. Classroom scuttlebutt is that she has been known to sing On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever, but I've only heard her sing verses from New Age-y folk tunes that mention planets spinning around the sun and the Earth Mother calling her children home...
...Temple Mount." In fact, it was later revealed that the "Palestinian" was actually an American Jewish student, Tuvia Grossman, who had been visiting the Old City with friends when their cab was stopped by a Palestinian mob, and the boys were dragged out, beaten and stabbed. Grossman broke free and ran for protection to the policeman, who, wielding his baton to ward off the attackers, probably saved the boy's life...
...administration still finding its feet - and not yet equipped with a China policy or team when the crisis broke - it was a remarkably poised performance. The China standoff, of course, is not quite over, and the hawks who were forced to keep their sabers sheathed to speed the return of the U.S. crew may be inclined to press for a harder line with Beijing on some of the conflicts that both sides must begin addressing as early as next week, each one carrying the risk of further confrontations. Which is why the surefooted diplomatic skills demonstrated by Secretary Powell this...