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And after finishing the season ranked No. 1 in the country, those goals—including a national title—seem well within reach.
In their first encounter this season, Gemmell had no problems defeating the once top-ranked player in the country. The score line shows that the Bantam player didn’t put up much resistance back in January, losing to the freshman, 11-6, 11-6, 11-7.
More than half a millennium later, Zheng has become a potent symbol for modern China. In 2005, the country marked the 600th anniversary of the seven voyages from 1405 to 1433 undertaken by Zheng's vast "treasure fleets" with nationwide celebrations; the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in...
In any other country, an outbreak of election-day violence leaving some 38 people dead would have been a major blow to democracy. But in Iraq it is a sign of resilience - or else a measure of how many other problems the country faces - that Iraqis appear to have shrugged...
The election could be crucial in determining whether Iraq continues on a path toward stability, independence and democracy, or plunges back into the kind of vicious civil warfare from which it has just emerged. Previous American-sponsored elections produced a series of sectarian and ethnic leaders who proved unable to...