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...State Department official, made no commitments. She did attempt to give the Sunnis a Politics 101 lesson. As the State Department official tells it, she urged them to work on turnout for the December elections, explaining that in politics, the last 10 or 15 percent is the hardest to get. The Sunnis had many more eligible voters than that, she said, so if they turned them out in force, they could wield considerable clout as the new government is being formed...
...you’re aroused by this, you either have an extremely bizarre fetish or you are a sportswriter who got into the business for the wrong reasons. Personally, dealing with this element of my Triple-A baseball assignment was the hardest part of my summer internship...
...vaccines, as if the President believes he can build levee walls high enough to keep a pandemic out of the U.S. He can't?and much of that money would be better spent on the ground in countries like Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, where bird flu has hit hardest. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has collected just $30 million of the $175 million it says is needed to control the disease in birds in Southeast Asia, though the World Bank's announcement last week that it will issue emergency loans to nations struggling with avian flu should help...
...hardest tasks faced by any off-duty sportswriter is to convince some people, usually women, that there are qualities to be admired in certain celebrated athletes. Watching, say, Lleyton Hewitt, many struggle to see past the scowling and the obnoxious self-exhortations to the traits that lifted a little trier to the peak of tennis. While most Australians preferred Steve Waugh to Hewitt, many couldn't warm to the cricketer, either. Grim and prickly, Waugh eschewed elegance for efficiency and good manners for a competitive edge. To his eternal credit, he took time out from his sport to mingle with...
...year’s roster. “They were so great for us this year. We couldn’t have even come close to doing this without them. You know that they’re back there and they’re going to be playing their hardest. All of our seniors have been great this entire season. We wish we could have done better for them.” The tournament kicks off on Nov. 11, and the championships will be played on Dec. 2 and 4 at Aggie Soccer Stadium in College Station, Texas...