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...Johnson busted a hamstring on a training run. This time, Racine made a strange decision: rather than putting athletic potential above friendship and replace Johnson with a healthy alternate, she would keep her on and hope the leg healed. It didn't. "Imagine someone stabbing you with a knife and scraping it down your leg, deeper and deeper and deeper with every step you take, and it being on fire at the same time," Johnson told TIME of how it felt to sprint while pushing about 400lbs of sled. USA 1 went from posting some of the strongest start-times...
...which means the hearings that kicked off Thursday - and the several others that will get under way in coming weeks - could take a while to heat up. Lieberman will let Levin, in charge of Governmental Affairs' investigations subcommittee, do the hard digging and knife-waving (he's already sent out 51 subpoenas to Enron and Andersen officials), but with every potential witness thoroughly "lawyered up" by now, there'll be plenty of Duncan-style immunity deals to be made, and all the legalistic haggling that comes with them, to be done first...
...Taliban leaders - but not those most sought by the U.S., or three former Taliban government officials who surrendered to the new Afghan government and were mysteriously released. Interim leader Hamid Karzai called for the formation of a national army to promote political and social stability. KASHMIR On a Knife Edge India massed its forces along the border with Pakistan declaring it was ready for war, despite the arrest in Pakistan of more than 200 extremists. In a televised speech, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf condemned terrorism, banned some militant groups and announced stricter regulation of religious schools. But he said...
...course there are occasions when such limitations are needed to protect other rights: as Pellegrino University Professor Robert Nozick observes in Anarchy, State and Utopia, my property rights in my knife allow me to leave it where I will, but not in your chest. The wealthy, however, don’t infringe on rights just by being wealthy. It’s difficult to show that those with money are responsible for the poverty of those without it; and it’s perhaps equally difficult to prove that poverty is due more to social conditions beyond one?...
...When Xiaohong, a 1.52-m law student from Gansu province, decided to submit to the knife, she knew securing a reputable surgeon like Xia would mean fees more than double her entire college tuition. Her father, the only family member who knows about the $12,000 surgery, agreed that it would be an investment in Xiaohong's future. "First impressions are what matters," says Xiaohong, perched on her hospital cot. "People in China will always pick the taller woman, even if the shorter person is more talented." When Xiaohong finishes the six-month exercise and rehab program in Beijing...