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DIED. Neroli Fairhall, 61, champion archer and the first paraplegic athlete to compete in the Olympics; of undisclosed causes; in Christchurch, New Zealand. When rival archers at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles complained, wondering whether the New Zealand national champion gained an unfair advantage by sitting in her wheelchair, Fairhall deftly silenced them. "I don't know," she said. "I've never shot standing...
...economic boom is taking place at a time when the U.S. and India are forging new ties. During the cold war, relations between New Delhi and Washington were frosty at best, as India cozied up to the Soviet Union and successive U.S. Administrations armed and supported India's regional rival, Pakistan. But in a breathtaking shift, the Bush Administration in 2004 declared India a strategic partner and proposed a bilateral deal (presently stalled in Congress) to share nuclear know-how. After decades when it hardly registered in the political or public consciousness, India is on the U.S. mental...
...mediators from the U.S. and Europe to help them choreograph their way out of such a crisis. The Western powers left a diplomatic vacuum when the gave up their traditional mediation role following the election of the Hamas government in January. And the usual mechanism for restraining violence between rival Palestinian groups on the ground - a consensus at the top over the need to maintain national unity - has been replaced by a virtual collision course between Hamas and President Abbas...
...OSHINSKY It was the stuff of nightmares: a crippling disease with no known cause that seemed to target children, especially American children. It put its victims in iron lungs and paralyzed a President. This Pulitzer prizewinning history goes behind the scenes of the scientific street fight that raged as rival laboratories raced to create a safe, effective polio vaccine. Victory went to Jonas Salk, a brilliant, flawed man but one who had an uncommon ability to empathize with the suffering of others--as a colleague put it, to "see beyond the microscope...
...whom he had promised the biggest singles at Harvard if they came here. “In ‘Elmwood Hall,’ my house,” he deadpanned. And he asked all about my sister, my best friend but a bit of a rival. This was a detail he remembered a few months later when he signed a dollar bill for her, “Your brother is great, but you are better—Larry Summers,” which delighted her for months.During chats in his office, Larry was surprisingly frank. He never told...