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...Javier A. Valle contributed to the reporting of this story...
...Saviola Sits It Out By ANDREW DOWNIE Rio de Janeiro Life can be hard for a teenager saddled with the nickname "El Conejo," the rabbit. But Javier Saviola has more serious problems at hand. The 19-year-old Argentine sensation is banging in goals aplenty for his Spanish club, Barcelona, in the world's best league, but he still can't find a place on the national side. Coach Marcelo Bielsa has an abundance of superb forwards to choose from (Gabriel Batistuta, Hernan Crespo, Claudio Lopez, Ariel Ortega, Kily Gonzales, Gustavo Lopez ... we could go on) and Saviola looks likely...
...where simple government-to-government diplomacy has failed. Annan has proved singularly adept on that front - indeed, the ringing endorsements of his second term and complete absence of hostility from any quarter speaks to his almost implausible popularity across all geopolitical boundaries. Of course his immediate predecessors - Boutros-Gali, Javier Perez de Cuellar and Kurt Waldheim - all performed the diplomatic role with dour sobriety, Annan has reinvented the role in keeping with the founding principles of the United Nations...
...most impressive win of the day, however, came for Harvard’s double team of Choo and Chu, who defeated Notre Dame’s No. 34-ranked duo of Javier Taborga and Casey Smith...
...NATO secretary general Lord Robertson and EU security chief Javier Solana arrived in Skopje Thursday in a bid to restart political talks, facing a government increasingly hostile to what it perceives as Western bias towards the insurgents. Indeed, the Macedonian government had made clear that it had no interest in further discussion with Western mediators unless rebel forces retreated to positions they held when the last cease-fire was signed on July 5. The guerrillas have done so, under the weight of Western pressure, but there's no reason to believe they won't simply press forward again a week...