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...Santiago, Chile. The king got fed up when the Venezuelan firebrand went on one of his rants and repeatedly accused former Spanish Prime Minister José MariaAznar of being a "fascist" who had supported a 2002 coup attempt against Chávez. Chávez later spun Juan Carlos' outburst as a monarchical affront to democracy (though Juan Carlos was, in fact, key to restoring constitutional rule in Spain after the death of its genuinely fascist dictator, Francisco Franco, in 1975). "The king is a head of state like me," Chávez said, "only I've been elected three...
...Youdecide2007.org invites voters to become "citizen journalists," posting first-hand reports from electorates. But when an M.P.'s outburst on the site about "financially illiterate" young people turned up in federal Parliament, it was a reminder that the Web also bites. Perhaps the campaign's most talked-about online moment is a video clip of Rudd, apparently eating his own earwax several years ago in Parliament. The embarrassing footage has been reported on around the world, and downloaded almost half a million times. There are rich pickings in this new age of online politics, but plenty of pitfalls...
...home record this year. In league contests, the advantage is even more pronounced—the host has won 15 of 20. Three of those five losses belong to Columbia and another one came in overtime. So while Dartmouth’s surprising season, including a 59-point outburst versus Cornell last weekend, has been nice, its luck won’t translate to Providence...
Penn’s offense, meanwhile, has struggled mightily in the switch to a spread attack of new offensive coordinator Bill Schmitz. Other than a 59-point outburst against Columbia and 42 points against Dartmouth, the two weakest defenses in the Ivies, the Quakers have scored 17 points or fewer in every game, including two games with just seven points...
Holmes is nowhere near the sun, so what's causing its outburst? One theory suggests that repeated melting and refreezing of the surface has created a hard crust on the snowball-like comet; heating by the sun has warmed the inside, raising the pressure until the crust cracked and released the pent up vapors with explosive force. The show, say astronomers could go on for several weeks...