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Despite the hefty price tag, both Ottawa and Ontario felt their hands were tied, and there was little haggling. "We had to save it all or have zero forever," PM Harper said at a joint news conference in Toronto, referring to the rescue of GM Canada...
Players who use Luxilon string say it feels "stiff" and "dead" on impact. But Luxilon general manager Nico van Malderen says that internal testing has shown the string is actually more powerful than the average. So it's possible that players developed aggressive topspin strokes with Luxilon because they felt they needed to swing harder to generate the same pace. As former world No. 1 Jim Courier says, "Technology has been the catalyst, but my guess is that if you forced all players to go back to technology from 1950 they would play much more aggressively than previous generations...
...when the CIA greatly increased drone sorties and strikes in Pakistan. The accelerated attacks have been stepped up under President Barack Obama. Nowadays, the low hum of the drones has become a familiar sound in Waziristan, where tribesmen call them machay, or red bees. Their lethal sting has been felt in villages and hamlets across the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA). The main objectives of the campaign: to take out al-Qaeda's top tier of leadership, including Osama bin Laden, and deny sanctuary in FATA for the Taliban and those fighters who routinely slip across the border to attack...
...drones' relatively low cost is due mainly to the fact that they don't have a pilot--which may also contribute to the Pakistani leadership's tacit acceptance of the CIA campaign. "If we were sending F-16s into FATA--American pilots in Pakistani airspace--they might have felt very differently," says James Currie, a military historian at the U.S.'s National Defense University...
...left Harvard on the day of the Harvard-Yale game and I could hear the cheers in the crowd—I felt like Charlie Chaplin with my knapsack on my back,” he said of the day he left to study for a year at the University of Utah. After writing for the daily newspaper at Utah, Nelson returned to triumphantly attain a spot on the Editorial Board. Two years later, he was elected president...