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...South Africa Is She or Isn't She? It took just under two minutes for Caster Semenya to win gold in the women's 800-m race at the World Athletics Championship on Aug. 19, but it will be weeks before gender tests show whether the 18-year-old South African is in fact a woman. Preliminary results of the tests--ordered after her masculine physique and dramatically improved performances prompted complaints from other runners--showed Semenya had three times the level of testosterone of a typical woman. The sport's authorities are trying to determine whether...
...look. Sometimes I dress as a cowboy as well. Really, I never stopped playing cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers. And the Indians have suffered terribly, which disgusts me. I love all people, whatever race they are." - Explaining why he dressed as a Native American when climbing the Empire State Building in 1997. (In an interview with the Guardian...
President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia is a phantom candidate with a long shadow. Prohibited by his country's constitution from seeking a third consecutive term, Uribe, who has already won the presidency twice by landslide, is nevertheless the solid frontrunner in next year's race. And so, as he maneuvers for the legal right to run again, several rival candidates have put their campaigns...
...According to opinion polls, Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed to be coasting to victory in September - but now the race seems more uncertain than ever. Her CDU party lost its absolute majority in Thuringia and Saar and may lose power altogether to three-party left-leaning coalitions in those states. In Saxony, the CDU and FDP govern together and were re-elected - but for the first time in a German state parliament, a neo-Nazi party, the NPD, kept its seats...
...office his older brother John F. Kennedy ’40 had once held, Edward had already carved himself a niche in the Senate, and would go on to become one of that body’s most powerful legislators. SENATOR AND FRIENDAfter his initial entrance into the race for a senate seat in 1962, Kennedy made getting to know the people of Massachusetts his priority, making up to 20 campaign stops a day, according to Milton S. Gwirtzman ’54, a former Crimson editorial chair who began working with Kennedy during his candidacy.Though he was born...