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...first for a major sports body, the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour will require players to speak English by 2009 or face suspension. Among the circuit's 121 foreign golfers from 26 nations--45 from South Korea alone--many back the policy, which the LPGA said would appeal to sponsors and fans and is "not meant to be punitive...
...SELIG, commissioner of Major League Baseball, insisting that the sport's new instant-replay system--which took effect on Aug. 28--will not be used for purposes other than to review disputed home runs...
...McCain was a fully formed human being when I met him," Salter explains. "It's his story. It's not some story that I gave him." It is, however, a story Salter passionately defends, endlessly firing off e-mails from his BlackBerry and penning letters to the editors of major publications. But the two men aren't always of one mind. Salter objected strongly to McCain's split from longtime adviser John Weaver last year and even told friends that he might leave the campaign. "Obviously, my first loyalty was to him," he says now of McCain...
...nearly forgotten campaigns with extraordinary verve and wit, especially for a Princeton political-science wonk. But the book's real payoff is what it brings to our understanding of contemporary conflicts that have been justified on humanitarian grounds, from Somalia to Kosovo to Iraq: context. "All of the major themes of today's heated debates about humanitarian intervention ... were voiced loud and clear throughout the nineteenth century," Bass writes. "They knew things then that we have forgotten...
...work is "a major leap" in reprogramming cells from one kind to another, said one expert not involved in the research, John Gearhart of the University of Pennsylvania...