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...leader disowned by his more refined colleagues, Zuma has become a champion of the disappointed. His supporters gathered by the thousands outside the courthouse during his rape trial. In June, when public-sector workers went on strike for several weeks, they chanted Zuma's name at rallies. He has the official endorsements of the ANC's powerful Youth League and the party's partners, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. He has also been trying to widen his appeal. After meeting local business leaders in September, Zuma told TIME, "If international businesspeople...
...time that it broke box-office records at London's Globe theater. But over the centuries, thanks to censorship and Victorian prudery, he fell out of fashion. By the time the world was ready again for Middleton's R-rated brand of theater, Shakespeare reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion of English literature, knocking everyone else to the margins of the curriculum and away from center stage...
...won’t go quietly, either. The Demons come into this season as the defending Southland Conference East Division champion for the 3rd year straight. After winning both its exhibition games, NSU is primed for the weekend’s action. The two teams have never played...
...months, Clinton has transformed herself into a far more dynamic campaigner than Mondale ever was. But most important, there is a stark difference in political philosophy between them: Clinton is a pragmatic moderate, and Mondale was an old-fashioned liberal. Bill Clinton rode to the presidency as the champion of an organization, the Democratic Leadership Council, that was founded as a direct reaction against Mondale's disastrous campaign. Indeed, a few minutes after the photo op, Senator Clinton offered the clearest statement of her own - and her husband's - philosophy that I've ever heard. It came during a brisk...
...Penn and Princeton has won the league since 1988, when the Big Red grabbed the crown. Cornell grabbed 10 of 16 first-place votes and finished with 119 points overall. Yale, last year’s runner-up, was second and earned three first-place votes. Three-time defending champion Penn, Columbia, and Brown came in third through fifth, and each received one first-place vote. Harvard, after posting a 5-9 league record last season, finished with just 43 points, three ahead of former perennial power Princeton. The Tigers ended last season in the cellar with...