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...TIME 100 I read TIME's pick of "The World's Most Influential People" with great pleasure [May 11]. I found the articles fascinating, even poetic at times - until I got to Ann Coulter's essay on Sarah Palin. All of the other writers praise their candidates without disparaging someone else. Coulter, who in this case insults John McCain, seems incapable of such an approach. Melanie Hart, Troy, Mich...
...nation. The Crimson had momentum on its side, but Princeton stopped the team in its tracks. The Tigers won five out of the nine matches in an intense encounter that would be echoed again later in the national championship match. No. 5 Yale gave Harvard another chance to pick up where it left off. The Crimson beat the Bulldogs, 6-3, in the final match of the season and solidified its No. 2 ranking going into the CSA National Team Championships. The team breezed through its early matches with Stanford and Penn, setting up a highly-anticipated rematch with Princeton...
...deregulation will mean lower prices, faster trains and greater convenience - for example, passengers now are usually forced to change to trains run by the incumbent state-owned operator when they cross into another country. Under the new rules, railroads will be able to operate seamlessly across borders and even pick up new passengers outside their home countries en route to their final destination...
...policy preferences and biases on the bench," says Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a group opposing Sotomayor's candidacy. "I'm going to continue to do all I can to expose Sotomayor's view of judging and why she's not a good pick for the court." Conservative activist groups are already airing commercials that attack Sotomayor's role in the New Haven case. Even a losing fight can have benefits for a party as disabled...
...Still, Chinese observers aren't ready to declare a new era in relations with the U.S. "I think it's evidence of a broader approach," says Zhu. "For Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, the human-rights tool remains on the table, but this time they pick up another one from the tool kit. I don't think their deliberate silence over the human-rights controversies between two countries means that now human-rights differences are truly fading away. The stipulation is when it will be coming back...