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...Only their '03 exit - ushered by a Wallabies unit that had staggered into the semis - could be attributed to the Kiwis crumbling. Former All Black Eric Rush says he saw that loss coming after speaking to a few of the players in the lead-up. "There was a lot of pressure on them, a lot of expectation, and the way they dealt with that was to treat it like just another game," says Rush. "And that's exactly how they played it" - only to be swamped by an opponent high on fervor...
...scene, and that could cause the adoption surge to slow. After hearing of cases in Guatemala in which babies were switched in the middle of adoption processes, for example, the U.S. recently announced that it would require two DNA tests on babies to ensure that a child issued an exit visa is the same one originally given up for adoption. More important, Guatemalan lawmakers earlier this year ratified the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, which will tighten controls - by closely tracking the use of adoption fees and by creating a centralized adoption authority that can be easily regulated - in both...
OKINAWA PREFECTURE, JAPAN Passengers and crew safely exit burning plane...
...statement about the timing and management of a further drawdown in October, when parliament returns after the long summer break and after delivery of a situation report by U.S. General David Petraeus, expected in September. Speculation is rife that Britain is heading as fast as possible for the exit. "The British have given up and they know they will be leaving Iraq soon," the radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told the British daily The Independent, on Aug. 20. His gleeful tone contrasted with the increasingly irritable mood music in Washington. A British pullout "will be ugly and embarrassing...
...presidency to leave before Labor Day. Rove had several conversations with Bush earlier this year about leaving. He wanted to time his departure just right - not an easy task in a year when the President's job approval rating has been at historic lows. But Rove did manage to exit on a relatively high note - in the wake of Congress' passage of the sweeping new electronic surveillance law that the White House had wanted and most Democrats had opposed...