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...hold on. Don’t indict me for hating America’s favorite pastime. This Red Sox loathing has nothing to do with baseball hate. And no, I do not hail from the land of the Yankees. Why then, you ask, do I find my college town’s team insufferable...
...FAUST!” from the Princeton cheering section. The cheering forced Omodele-Lucien into a battle of wits that seemed more aimed against the fans than his opponent, Princeton freshman Alex Faust.When Omodele-Lucien was broken at 3-3 in the first set, he heard a hail of cheering for his opponent, so when he broke right back to equalize the set 4-4 after a protracted string of deuces, he formed his own impromptu cheering section, pumped his fists, and looked coldly at the crowd. After winning the next two games to take the first set, Omodele-Lucien...
...enclave where the Iraqi government and the American command stay had fallen off steeply until the most recent wave of fighting. In recent months people inside the Green Zone felt safer and maybe a little bolder - possibly one reason for picking a fight in Basra. But a steady hail of rockets falling on and around Iraqi government buildings suddenly got Maliki talking about a political compromise with Sadr, at least for a time. In other words, the "heavily fortified" Green Zone is looking more like a soft spot...
...insurance policy. And those are just the consequences we know about. But the truth is, we're already performing an unauthorized experiment on our climate by adding billions of tons of man-made carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Unless the geopolitics of global warming change soon, the Hail Mary pass of geoengineering might become our best shot...
...across the region, civilians have borne the brunt of a war between government-backed militias known as janjaweed and rebels. Some 200,000 people are dead from violence, hunger and disease, and 2.5 million more are displaced. Although the conflict has no clear ethnic or religious lines, the janjaweed hail from nomadic tribes that identify themselves as Arab, and the rebels represent settled tribes usually labeled African. The plight of the Darfurians has received worldwide attention, with Hollywood stars like George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Don Cheadle taking up cudgels on their behalf. The crisis has also become a campus...