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...spent my summer in Hong Kong, one of the areas in Asia whose economy has gone down the drain. Before my visit, I hadn't realized how bad it is. An air of gloom hung over the whole city--all the malls were empty, the shops filled with "Going Out of Business" signs and the headline news everyday was either of another jump in the unemployment rate or of yet another major company closing down. The suicide rate has gone up; there was an unemployment-related one just a few days...
...That was a great match for Sarah and Roxanna," Broughton said. "They hadn't played together before, and they showed a lot of heart. This was also Sarah's first team tournament, and she showed that she'll be a great contributor...
WASHINGTON: Well, John Podesta's transition to his new post as White House chief of staff should at least be smooth. Outgoing chief Erskine Bowles said last month he "hadn't spent two minutes a week" on the Lewinsky scandal -- which means that for the past 10 months it's been Podesta's full-time task. And on Tuesday President Clinton, with impeachment hearings ready to roll in a few weeks, sounded happy to have a specialist...
...church doesn't see it that way. "If she hadn't been 100% Jewish, she wouldn't have been killed," agrees Father Peter Gumpel, a senior Vatican saintmaker. But the roundup that doomed her was an explicitly announced reprisal for a brave Catholic stance: the Dutch bishops' denunciation of the German persecution of Jews in a pastoral letter days before. "It was revenge," says Gumpel, and were it not for the bishops' statement, "she wouldn't have been killed. So we have decided to say she is the victim of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Holland by Nazi...
...certainly a big relief for me, because I hadn't scored yet this year," Soldo said. "This was the moment I waited for. But, to score a goal at 0-3 with only four minutes left is almost worthless, so it was not as good as a first goal could have been...