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...After stealing the puck and racing into the Saints’ zone, the senior winger positioned herself in front of the net, with a defender and Chartier impeding the path to her 23rd goal of the season. With the direct route blocked, Vaillancourt took a detour, flicking a shot around the defender and over Chartier’s shoulder to deliver the puck to its final destination...
Dolan, a St. Louis, Mo., native, is virtually guaranteed to rise to the rank of Cardinal in the next consistory - a formal meeting of the College of Cardinals - at the Vatican. Insiders expect that his first move will be to forge a more direct link not only with New York parishioners but with priests, who privately were among Egan's harshest critics. Still, because it involves New York City, the job is necessarily more than just simple parish work, ideally serving as something of a roving ambassador for American Catholicism and a bridge to every walk of life that exists...
...global recession, debate is raging over whether the flood of money will provide much more than a short-term economic boost and whether much of the cash will ultimately be wasted. Vietnam, which like most Asian countries is being hammered by the downturn, is discovering that even the most direct form of stimulus spending - cash giveaways to citizens - can wind up in the wrong hands...
...Under direct control of the autocratic Communist Party through the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, CCTV is the largest broadcaster in the country. With 16 national channels and over 10,000 employees, it reaches over one billion people in mainland China, with around a 30-percent airtime share. In a knowledge era, CCTV is at the core of the government’s control over the population...
...woman seeking damages for the 1941 deportation of her father by Vichy forces to Auschwitz, where he was killed. In its decision, the Conseil d'Etat held the French state, as then represented by Vichy, "responsible for damages caused by actions which did not result from the occupiers' direct orders, but facilitated deportation from France of people who were victims of anti-Semitic persecution." (See pictures of Adolf Hitler's rise to power...