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...global economic stage by taking a step toward making the yuan a global currency. "A lot of this is symbolic," says Citigroup's Chua. "China wants to be a player." And one sure way to be a player, as everyone knows, is to threaten to quit the game...
...False Crutch I object to the implications made in the Essay "The People's Game" [March 16]. The author parrots propaganda in claiming that Pakistan "was born as ... a refuge for a persecuted minority fleeing the Hindu dominance of India." Never in about 800 years since the first arrival of Muslims in India till independence did Hindus actually dominate. In all this time much of the region was controlled by Muslim rulers and then by the British. Such misconceptions feed into the false binaries that fundamentalists in Pakistan need to survive. Vishv Malhotra, Blackmans Bay, Australia...
...After a rocky ninth inning that saw him surrender the game-tying run, the righty allowed just two hits over three innings of scoreless work...
...Stack-Babich deposited an offering from Cornell’s David Rochefort over the center-field fence to give Harvard its second straight walk-off win over the Big Red, which had roared back from a four-run deficit to tie the game at five on a Nathan Ford jack in the top of the ninth...
...Lost momentarily in the celebration at home plate was the play that had pushed the game past the 13th frame. After the Tigers had brought home two runs off of Harvard sophomore Dan Berardo, and the Crimson had made the first two outs in the bottom half, captain Harry Douglas seemed to have a shot to pull Harvard within one before his fence-bound bomb was pulled foul. He settled for a single, leaving Stack-Babich to battle with the wind...