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...serve to go down 4-3, then failed to break Uvarova’s serve. Needing to hold serve to stay in the match, she initially went up 30-15. However, three straight forehand errors by Ko gave Uvarova the game and the match. “The heat was on and it was really hot outside,” Ko said. “She fought really hard, especially in the third set.” Uvarova fell in the tournament’s second round to No. 13 Georgia Rose of Northwestern. Ko likely would have played Rose...
...Moscow in different contexts: Russia brutally burns out separatism in Chechnya, but it endorses the efforts of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to break away from pro-NATO Georgia, as well as those of Moldova's breakaway region of Trans-Dniestria. Russia uses these separatist entities to turn up heat on Georgia and Moldova, and the separatist movements in all three demand Russian recognition, and subsequent incorporation into Russia. Hence, Moscow's headache: Should it go along with the Ahtisaari plan, it must insist that the same approach be applied to Russian allies, lest it loses face both with them...
...Movements are born in white heat," says the great religious historian Martin Marty, but once the heat cools, fissures show up. "Leaders make mistakes and have to apologize. You don't get all you dreamed of, and settle for less. To be charitable: you also might mature some." The movement Falwell had helped create grew so large it spilled out in directions no one could foresee or control, encompassing work on global warming and the crisis in Darfur. Young Evangelicals still have their heroes and their causes, but those were less likely to be Falwell and Pat Robertson fighting abortion...
...letter stops short of calling for Gonzales’s resignation, even as the attorney general comes under rising heat on Capitol Hill. But it is a stinging rebuke to Gonzales, just two weeks after the Law School Class of 1982’s 25th reunion...
When Gaza is aflame, Sderot is typically the first Israeli town to feel the heat. The small town of about 23,00 people perched on a pleasant bit of countryside near the Gaza Strip is within easy range of the homemade, unguided, Qassam rockets fired by Palestinian militants across the fence. And with Gaza spiraling into a chaotic Palestinian civil war, at least 70 rockets have been fired into Israel over the past two days, several of them landing in Sderot. One even hit a building near the home of Defense Minister Amir Peretz, a Sderot native...