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Every April, the NHL commences the fiercest championship tournament in all of professional sports. Game in and game out players repeatedly put their bodies on the line for sixty minutes—and usually beyond—in order to gain the most marginal of advantages to advance their team to the next round...
...relatively quiet today on all fronts. There was some shelling in the morning after the government spurned a cease-fire offer from the rebels, but that stopped by the afternoon. Then tonight the fiercest exchanges of fire yet broke out around Tetovo. So while it appeared there had been some reasons for optimism earlier, the more pessimistic scenario appears to once again be taking hold...
Asian travel agents have long touted cheap tours to the country. And arrivals from Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong are increasing. In Europe, where boycott talk is fiercest, agents in Italy, France and Germany sell Burma on the sly. Only 160,000 foreigners make the trip annually. Operators are now going on the offensive, trumpeting tourism to a cradle of Southeast Asian culture as the best way to benefit the long-suffering Burmese...
...virus sweeps mercilessly through these lands--the fiercest trial Africa has yet endured--a few try to address the terrible depredation. The rest of society looks away. Flesh and muscle melt from the bones of the sick in packed hospital wards and lonely bush kraals. Corpses stack up in morgues until those on top crush the identity from the faces underneath. Raw earth mounds scar the landscape, grave after grave without name or number. Bereft children grieve for parents lost in their prime, for siblings scattered to the winds...
...will convene a council of tribal elders to appoint a two-year transitional government. Donor countries linked pledges of more than $5 billion in international aid to democratic controls. But security remained a key issue as U.S. forces near Kandahar killed 15 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the fiercest clashes...