Word: levelness
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...That fact was so visually striking in the global World Cup telecasts that it sparked intense discussion back home among politicians, who argued that whites had resisted integration at club-level rugby, and thus stifled blacks' advancement to international competition. Even before the team's opening game in Paris in August, the Springboks' manager Zola Yeye, the first black South African in the job in the team's 101-year history, told TIME that the team - good as it was - was an "indictment" of South African rugby's failure to integrate. He said he believed racial quotas might ultimately...
...always been interested in politics, and I had very early exposure to the stakes involved at the Presidential level when I was sent by the Securities and Exchange Commission to assist in an aspect of the Watergate prosecution. So I've been sort of engaged in things ever since. I was chairman of Common Cause, the public-interest lobby founded by John Gardner, and on the board of Washington advocacy groups which espouse reasonable gun laws, reproductive freedom, women's and family health issues and the like...
...She’s got that go-go-go attitude and loves to get control of the point,” she says. “She takes the game to another level and separates herself from other people. I really like the way she focuses and brings up the level of play in matches. She keeps practicing and always manages to find a way to raise her game...
...desolation of Villahermosa, there has been no widespread breakdown in law and order or four-figure death tolls. On the contrary, observers here say that Mexico's rapid response to its worst flooding in recent history was a factor in averting a catastrophe on the level of Katrina...
Whenever the question of the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal comes up, the official U.S. response has been that the weapons are in safe hands. That position is, like the U.S. position on Russian nukes, based on trust - on high-level, personal contacts between military commanders on both sides. For now, Washington can maintain that line about Pakistan because that country's two highest military leaders have close ties to the U.S. or Britain. General Pervez Musharraf, who is also President, was trained in England, and his likely military successor General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani was trained...