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...first game at No. 2 to win, 9-7, 9-2, 9-3. By the time she had finished her match, the Crimson had already taken a 4-0 lead. Sophomore Johanna Snyder was off the No. 4 court in a matter of minutes, using excellent shot placement to dispatch her opponent in convincing fashion, 9-3, 9-0, 9-0. Sophomores Sandra Mumanachit and Charlene Neo also gained early victories playing in the No. 6 and 8 spots, respectively. Neo dropped only two points in her match and has now outscored her Cornell opposition 54-2 in the past...
Turkey for its part has stressed that any incursion would seek only to attack the PKK and that Turkey had no designs on Iraqi territory, as some Iraqi Kurdish leaders have claimed. Foreign Minister Babacan said that if Turkey does dispatch troops "it would not be an invasion" but instead would consist more of commando raids on PKK positions...
...capital Kigali concludes its description of 1994 with the words: "Rwanda was dead." As a Tutsi area, Nyamata was a crucible of the killing. It was where, in a series of practice massacres after 1990, that the Hutu militia, the Interahamwe, honed their calculations of the optimum rate of dispatch. Come April 1994, around six out of every 10 people in Nyamata were killed, though again, no one is sure of the exact figure. A few miles from Nyamata, a sign at a second massacre site reads: ÉGLISE NTARAMA: +/- 5,000 PEOPLE...
With foreign journalists locked out of the country by Burma's military government, this dispatch was written by TIME staff based on eyewitness reports. [NOTE: The junta that runs the country imposed a systematic name change several years ago, decreeing that Burma was to be called Myanmar and the capital Rangoon was to be Yangon. The opposition has never accepted these changes; neither has the U.S. government. TIME continues to use Burma and Rangoon...
...President Bush's one-day visit in June, the veteran Italian lawmaker had to cross the capital to get to a live television appearance. Selva confronted the challenge with all the brio - and arrogance - of a man of his station: he phoned for an ambulance and had it dispatch him to the address of his "cardiologist," which, of course, was that of the TV studio. Once on air, Selva, a former radio news executive, proudly dished out the tale of his own resourcefulness, hailing his ruse as "an old journalist's trick...