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With both the UCF Invitational and the Stanford Invitational taking place this past Saturday, Crimson coach Jason Saretsky split his team between the sunny climates, with sprinters, jumpers, and throwers traveling to Orlando, Fla., and middle-distance and distance runners going to Palo Alto, Calif., to compete in more individually-focused meets...
Palin hit the road this past weekend to influence the fortunes of two 27-year veterans of Congress, who simultaneously entered the House in 1983 and the Senate in 1987 and who are now facing the toughest races of their careers. Palin spent Friday and Saturday morning in Tucson and Phoenix, Ariz., to help save the job of John McCain, the man who put her on the political and cultural map when he added her to the Republican ticket in 2008. On Saturday afternoon, she touched down in the outskirts of Searchlight, Nev., birthplace and residence of the Democrats' embattled...
...more popular provisions. They are searching for a more nuanced and modulated message that will allow them to avoid the damning Party of No label, while still making their principles clear. But Sarah Palin doesn't really do nuance or modulation. Defiance is more her style, and this past weekend she used her folksy brand of full-throated opposition to dominate American politics yet again with appearances in Arizona and Nevada. The lady from the frozen north happens to be one heck of a Sun Belt candidate, and within the conservative movement she has unmatched national appeal. (See pictures...
...past eight years, Afghan rebel leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has been a phantom presence on the edges of the Afghan insurgency. His Hezb-i-Islami militia - said to number between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters, and which operates independently of the Taliban - has carried out scores of ambushes on coalition forces in the northeastern mountains of Afghanistan and has claimed credit for two attempts on the life of President Hamid Karzai...
After disappearing more than a year ago, a Chinese human-rights lawyer re-emerged this past weekend, to the relief of family members who had feared for his safety. Gao Zhisheng received several phone calls from colleagues in Beijing, and spoke briefly by phone with his children, who fled to the U.S. last year with their mother Geng...