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...foreign reporters with tales of sports department head Zhang Bin's alleged infidelity, repeatedly asking, "If Chinese have no humane values to present to the world, what is the purpose of the Olympics after all?" Eventually, Hu was bundled off the stage by CCTV handlers, while Zhang made a quick apology. According to Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television, Hu was later jailed on charges of damaging the name of China and the Olympic Games, and will only be released after the Games are over...
...even saying they were secrets when he had published at least one of them in a book? Burrell, looking more confident than he had the day before, said the pressure of the inquest and the intensity of Mansfield's questioning had confused him. (With his quick-fire interrogation and his reedy, disdainful tone, Mansfield is a cross between TV detective Columbo and Harry Potter's Professor Severus Snape.) "I didn't know what I would be asked," the former butler said. "I thought it would be easier than it is. Quite frankly, it's been horrid...
...coded words about race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The bickering has exploded in the space of a week into Topic A in the Democratic race, supplanting for the moment the war and the economy and health care - and shows no sign of a quick resolution...
...head. By the Harvard bench, away from the puck, Fraser got into a tussle with a St. Lawrence player; with his opponent already down, Fraser decided to give him a little extra. The penalty put Harvard on the wrong end of a 5-on-3, and the Saints were quick to retake the lead with the two-man advantage. After two periods, the Crimson had a 31-18 advantage in shots but found itself down, 2-1. Donato was less than impressed with his team’s unnecessary aggressiveness. “We took some selfish penalties?...
...After she won the N.H. primary, pundits were quick to point to her emotional moment as the reason for the upset victory. Maureen Dowd’s column the morning after the primary was titled, “Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?” It was said that middle-aged and older women, who formed 57 percent of the voters in the Democratic primary—and who voted for her 46 percent to 34 percent over Obama—were touched by the moment and upset about the extra scrutiny Hillary...