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This year, the Canadian women were forced to play for the bronze when Britain beat them in the semifinals. The British went on to defeat the Swiss in an exciting (honest) gold-medal match that went down to the last stone. All the members of the British team hail from Scotland, which is appropriate since the sport traces its origins to the 16th century and frozen Scottish lochs. The 19-kg stones used in competition are still cut from Scottish granite...
...These are not cosmetic changes. "Our foreign policy used to be based on indignity," explains a Beijing scholar. For decades, the country, which had suffered the humiliating defeat in the Opium War in the 19th century, acted as though barbarian troops were threatening to sweep across its soil imminently. But last year China scored a series of successes not through defensive belligerence but by raising its game, literally and figuratively: it won the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, its men's soccer team for the first time qualified for the World Cup finals and, most significantly, it joined...
...year stint as a diplomat including three at the U.N. DIED. NANDOR HIDEGKUTI, 79, legendary Hungarian footballer who was part of the Hungarian squad that won gold at the 1952 Olympics, but was famed as a member of the"Golden Team" that inflicted on England its first defeat at home by an overseas side when it beat them 6-3 at Wembley Stadium in 1953; in Budapest. DIED. TRAUDL JUNGE, 81, Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942-45, who took his last will and testament in a Berlin bunker two days before he committed suicide; in Munich. Junge died hours...
...apparently overlooking the fact that the foreign policies of current members such as the United States and Iraq have yet to converge. Lurking behind his party's opposition is the deeper fear that joining the U.N. would be a stalking horse for full European integration. After last year's defeat at the polls, however, the government has no plans to relaunch the E.U. initiative in the near future, though ministers have suggested this is not the end of the issue...
With a win over Williams, Harvard would most likely earn another chance to knock off the juggernaut Bantams, who face Brown on Friday and who dealt a convincing 8-1 defeat to the Crimson only three weeks...