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...only tragedy of these Games. The day after the Opening Ceremonies, the father of McCutcheon's wife Elisabeth was stabbed to death and her mother critically injured by a deranged and suicidal Chinese man at Beijing's Drum Tower. McCutheon left the team to be with his family, who flew back to the U.S. early last week. He returned on Aug. 17. Improbably and imperceptibly, the U.S. men worked its way through its draw, then beat Serbia in five sets to reach the semifinals. A win would secure the U.S. its first medal since 1992 and first shot at gold...
...Sunday Times has anointed her "the Asian Björk." The Guardian gave her debut album, Alive, four stars upon its U.K. release last October, adding, "Sa Dingding deserves to be the first Chinese singer-songwriter to become a celebrity in the West." In April, she flew to London to receive a BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music. And in late July, Alive got its U.S. release. Her record company naturally expects great things. "It's taken something unique to crack the world market and we believe Sa Dingding is that unique article," says Iain Snodgrass, international marketing director...
...couple of weeks," wrote analyst Vladimir Savov. "While warfare is never a good thing, fundamentally Russia's economy and infrastructure are not affected ... The likelihood of military involvement of other superpowers is below average. The situation may end soon, to be replaced by diplomatic negotiations." And even as bullets flew in Georgia, U.S. electronics retailer Best Buy took the first step toward expanding in Russia by registering its Future Shop trademark there...
...powers at home grew, al-Maliki looked to expand his international Rolodex beyond his longtime backers in Tehran. In July, the Iraqi leader flew to Europe for appearances in Germany and Italy and at the European Union headquarters in Brussels - all haunts of Bush Administration "frenemies" over Iraq. Talk of Iraq's potential ability to increase oil and gas exports to Europe was high on the agenda during the tour. And earlier this month, al-Maliki's government announced plans to revive a $1.2 billion oil deal with China that had first been inked in 1997 under Saddam Hussein...
Saakashvili reveals he is sleeping about four hours a night. A nasty cut on his right hand, suffered when his security detail shoved him to the ground in the town of Gori last week as Russian bombers flew overhead, is just healing over. "We are in a very decisive moment," he says in clipped rapid-fire speech. "We need to stay strong and show the people that we are strong. And we will stay to the end. We will resist [Russia]. We will squeeze them out of this entire territory...