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Botterill’s unassisted goal at 12:48 in the same period opened the margin to 5-0. Less than three minutes later, she raced down the ice on a two-on-none with Olympic counterpart Chu and fed her for a tantalizing goal past Huggon, who was left high and dry by her defense...
Prior to the game, Northeastern coach Joy Woog claimed that her team had “the advantage by far” in goal. After watching Gunn, her counterpart across the ice, allow four goals, Ruddock deflected Woog’s comment...
...labor market flexibility and reform failing pension systems. How governments respond to this wave of strikes - and other walkouts that are still to come - will help determine how their economies weather the economic slump. In the rough-and-ready camp are British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his French counterpart, Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Last week Blair offered a deal to state healthcare workers for a pay rise tied to reforms, but refused wage demands by striking firefighters unless they modernize. Raffarin scored an important victory by threatening tough action against strikers who break the law. As a result, industrial action...
...subplots being watched by diplomats and journalists here in Prague was the interaction between George Bush and his German counterpart Gerhard Schroeder. It appears that Bush is still penalizing the German leader for resuscitating his election campaign by attacking Bush's hard-line position on Iraq and going back on promises he made to the American president in private about supporting the U.S. effort in some fashion...
...clambering aboard Channel Tunnel trains - and vigorous protests from the British - the French authorities pretended the problem didn't exist. But after winning power on a law-and-order platform, France's new right-wing government decided to act. In September, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and his British counterpart David Blunkett agreed that the center at Sangatte would close for good by April 2003. Some 900 French police are now stationed around Calais to intercept migrants, while an additional 1,000 places have been created in reception centers elsewhere in the country, to avoid large concentrations of asylum seekers...