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...rejecting that intolerance, let's not kid ourselves that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a champion of women's rights. I have attended meetings where his Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies chose not to shake my hand simply because I'm a woman. I know that hardly any of the AKP deputies have wives who work; when one of them sought to file charges against her husband for allegedly beating her, she was quickly dissuaded. I have watched Erdogan's daughter (who studied in the U.S. because of the ban) come home, get married and disappear. There...
...door; both the Qatar tournament organizers and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) agreed that she could compete. "They all welcomed me warmly," she told TIME at the end of a grueling practice session in Tel Aviv with her part-time coach, Conchita Mart ínez, a 1994 Wimbledon champion. Tennis officials assured the young Israeli that she would be given round-the-clock security in Qatar, and one member of her entourage was told that Peer would be treated "like the Emir's wife...
...where I live, I have noticed that many talented young players have never heard of Fischer, and those who have do not view him positively. It is sad that he was never pardoned for violating a U.S. ban by playing a 1992 match in Yugoslavia. He was a chess champion who was not welcome in his own country. I think that may be partly to blame for his mental breakdown. He spent so much of his life as a fugitive - simply for playing a game of chess. Lauren Kuckelman, REEDLEY, CALIF...
...EAGLES WIN. Petrecki nets a rebound from the left side after Richter toppled making the save on a shot from Matt Greene. That's going to be it from the Garden--an incredible effort from Harvard, but BC is your Beanpot champion...
...Seattle late Thursday evening and heading immediately to a gritty corner of the city's port, where she told about 5,000 people gathered in a hangar-like cruise ship terminal that they needed to elect a President who will be "a fighter, and a doer, and a champion for the American people." She took a shot at Obama, who was set to hold a large rally in Seattle's NBA basketball stadium on Friday morning, suggesting that his calls for unity were not grounded enough. "I am hoping to unify the country," Clinton said. "But to unify...