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...host Austria, hanging by a thread, will have to overcome Germany to reach the knockout phase. The Austrians might take notes on how the Croats fashioned their decisive win over the favored Germans: by completely clogging the gears of the German passing machine. Germany center midfielder Michael Ballack spent the day spewing misdirected passes all over the pitch, never quite finding Mario Gomez or Miroslav Klose. Croatia's leprechaun middleman Luka Modric, in the meantime, was dancing around the pitch with the ball, often picking out Ivica Olic, who scored the second goal when a deflected shot from the right...
...Russert, NBC News' Washington bureau chief and the tremendously influential host of Meet the Press, died suddenly Friday afternoon. He died at age 58 of an apparent heart attack; he died in Washington, D.C.; and he died - unsurprisingly to anyone familiar with him - at work...
...course, whether Russert died in the midst of an election year or not, the political and news worlds would have felt his loss. As host of Meet the Press, Russert established himself as the consummate Washington insider, but he drew much of his knowledge and authority from his roots outside the Beltway. He was born in 1950 in Buffalo, N.Y., and his Rust Belt, Catholic roots constantly and conspicuously informed his work. He wrote memorably about his Buffalo upbringing and his father's influence on him in his memoir Big Russ and Me. As one of his NBC colleagues, Lisa...
Take sports. After Beijing won the right seven years ago to host the 2008 Olympics, the country's State General Administration of Sports unveiled a Cabinet-approved policy called "Winning pride at the Olympics." The program built on China's long-standing "Gold-medal strategy" of targeting sports that offer the most Olympic golds because of different weight classes or race lengths. (Fencing, for instance, holds 10 golds, while canoeing/kayaking has 16.) It didn't matter that most Chinese knew nothing of these sports. The point was to accumulate gold medals. Women's sports, which tend to receive less funding...
...During the ensuing five-hour debate, a few MPs cat-napped while the remainder wrestled with questions of principle and power. They weren't concerned just with balancing civil liberties against the threat from terrorists, but also with a host of strategic calculations. The Conservatives were continuing a rebranding exercise, which Cameron initiated when he took over as leader in 2005, appropriating some of the values and preoccupations more traditionally associated with Labour, such as a focus on human rights. On the Labour benches, many of the Prime Minister's supporters worried that failure to win the day could precipitate...