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...dominated the competition, dropping only one set. Facing Saber Kadiri of the Hokies, who had beat Chu last year in an ITA regional matchup, Harvard’s No. 1 player dropped the first set. Then, in the second, Kadiri held two match points...
...veteran Australian diplomat Richard Butler held the job of chief weapons inspector for the United Nations, but he is still no friend of Baghdad. Last week, as the U.N. rejected an Iraqi proposal to hold talks about the possible resumption of weapons inspections and the Bush Administration continued its saber rattling in Saddam Hussein's direction, Butler again found himself the target of Iraqi ire. "Hans Blix [head of the U.N.'s current weapons-inspection program] has inherited the same duties undertaken by the spy Butler," Iraq's Foreign Minister told one Arab newspaper. Butler's reaction: "Tired old stuff...
Without conclusive proof, public opinion is unlikely to be swayed. In Germany, for example, Schröder's stance is undoubtedly linked to the fact that most Germans - - more than 80% in one survey - oppose an attack on Iraq. Schröder may be calculating that a little saber muffling may help him in the polls. But even in the U.K., a survey conducted by NOP for Channel 4 News found that 52% of the British public don't want their country's forces to join a U.S.-led attack, while...
...question 10 months later is whether he dared too much. Musharraf has to hold firm in the face of a maelstrom of conflicting forces: pressure from the U.S., Indian saber rattling, embittered domestic fundamentalists and extremists--and now the demands and intrigue of Pakistani politics, an arena Musharraf openly despises...
...life, the creature probably resembled a chimpanzee more than anything else. It moved through a lakeside landscape of grasslands and forest searching for food, accompanied by small bands of its fellows, most likely, and keeping a sharp eye out for pythons, crocodiles and saber-toothed cats. This animal probably shared the forest with apes and monkeys and, like them, spent some time up in the trees. It may have walked upright, which apes rarely do for very long at a stretch. But at a casual glance, it would have seemed to our eyes like just another chimp...