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...time around, Phelps made the right one to come up before his touch. "When I did chop that last stroke I really thought it cost me the race," he said. "I ended up making the right decision. Trying to take a short fast stroke to try to get my hand on the wall first turned out to be in my favor." His coach agreed. "In that situation, it's the lesser of two evils - either you're going to glide or take half a stroke," said Bowman. "He did a much better job taking half a stroke...
...senior official from the late Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party said the coalition was prepared to hand Musharraf a deal. "We've said he can have what he wants - his house, his security," said the official, who has been negotiating with the Musharraf camp. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the junior coalition partner, had earlier dismissed all talk of a "safe passage" but now appears to be considering the proposal...
...Australian delegation's Wesley Enoch, an award-winning theater director (Stolen, Riverland), preservation must always go hand in hand with progress. The delegation he selected for the festival - from Freshwater, a women's a capella group who seek to reclaim languages through song, to Doonooch, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation group using traditional dance - reflect his theme of "Welcoming the New Day." "In Indigenous Australia there's a whole lot of contemporary manifestations of culture that we want to look at," Enoch says. "It's not just about cultural maintenance but about cultural evolution...
...American invasion. "I tell people all the time that if the U.S. starts playing team handball," says David Davis of Spain, "it's over for the rest of the world." It may be too late for Beijing. But it's time for the U.S. to give itself a hand...
...Maubeuge, near the Belgian border. Posts on the issue to the website of the leftist daily Libération ran 95% in favor of Laboureur's slap. Then the politicians got involved: French Prime Minister François Fillon said he wished the case had been left in the hand of education officials rather than dragged before the courts. Education Minister Xavier Darcos ordered Laboureur's school to discipline the slapped student, who was was promptly suspended from classes for three days...