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...over the last year Gordon Brown has had his ups and downs. But he has many great strengths, and he was a great chancellor [of the Exchequer] for 10 years. In recent weeks, I think the public have seen that, in the way he's reacted and taken control -not just in our own country, but across the world - in this world economic crisis...
...played good polo, but it definitely wasn’t perfect,” Tune explained. “We need to come out hard-pressed right away and maintain the press defense for the whole game.”“We need more ball control and we have to put together a whole game of defense,” Connolly added. “We just need to tighten up.” With two weeks until the Northern championships, it remains to be seen how far this squad can rise...
...everything changed; the match was turned on its head, and with it, the course of the Ivy League season as the Crimson exploded to a 4-0 lead on the way to a 4-1 win in Providence, R.I. With the victory, the Crimson (6-3, 3-0) took control of the battle for the league crown.Harvard sophomore Alex Chi received a pass on the left side and miskicked but fought hard to win the ball back, finding junior Andre Akpan on the edge of the box. Akpan shifted the ball onto his right foot and drilled it past...
...roiled Zimbabwe since A March 29 election in which Tsvangirai won a greater share of the vote than Mugabe.Resolving the power struggle is an essential precondition for restoring the international aid and investment necessary to rescue an economy in free fall, with unemployment at 80% and inflation out of control. Although Mbeki had managed to persuade the two leaders to share power in a Sept. 15 deal, once the discussion moved on to allocating ministries in a unity government - and taking some of the key levers of power out of the hands of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party - the process...
...betting that with more immediate concerns distracting the international community, he can push back against the power sharing without suffering too much pressure from his neighbors. Zimbabwe's only president since independence in 1980, Mugabe has taken wildly different positions since the March elections, in which the MDC won control of parliament and Tsvangirai finished first in the presidential race, although without an absolute majority. At the time, Mugabe said Zimbabweans had made a "mistake," and his security forces unleashed a wave of repression that left close to 200 M.D.C. supporters dead. The violence prompted Tsvangirai to withdraw from...