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...scramble to stop their star players and coach from signing lucrative contracts with talent-hungry European teams, South African officials on Wednesday scrapped a long-held commitment to racial quotas for their national sports teams. That plan was one of the cornerstones of President Thabo Mbeki's push to integrate sports in a sports-crazed nation, and help close the huge racial schisms left by decades of apartheid. "Quotas are out," the sports minister Makhenkesi Stofile said in a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday attempting to explain the reversal. "We are not going to decide who must be on the team...
...will need to transport their equipment to pre-Olympic events, training camps and to the Olympics themselves in Beijing, China. This will significantly limit our athletes' ability to prepare for important events. And it will have further significant implications as we head towards the London 2012 Olympics." Newly crowned European long board champion and English champion Ben Skinner is also raising his voice in protest, saying, "As part of the British team I have always traveled with BA. I think it's a disgrace that they have thrown this ban back at us. BA seems to have totally underestimated...
...satellite phones in shelters to the drop points of millions of bottles of water. "The reaction has been very impressive. If there were not such a fast and wide-scale response, the human cost of this tragedy would have been much higher," said Helena Ranchal, regional head of the European Commission's emergency relief fund...
...More is made of the fact that Sarkozy appears to be Bush's strongest European ally when it comes to tackling Iran's nuclear program. But on that issue, too, the Frenchman's tough talk obscures the larger fact that very little has actually changed: France is leading the effort to persuade Iran to end uranium enrichment through a combination of sanctions and negotiations, and calls the idea of U.S. military action against Iran "catastrophic...
...other issues, such as expanding the European Union to include some key U.S. allies, Sarkozy may be even more at odds with Bush than Chirac had been: Even more strongly than his predecessor, Sarkozy wants to shut the E.U. door to Turkey's membership, which is directly at odds with what Washington wants. Nor would Bush have much time for Sarko's complaints about the disparities in the dollar-euro exchange rate. Instead, expect the two men to emphasize their agreement (hardly new) on fighting the good fight in Afghanistan, gradual French reintegration within NATO, and doing something about thuggery...