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...their chests. On Tuesday, they did. For the first time in living memory, 84-year-old Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for 28 years, was heckled and drowned out in parliament. As Mugabe tried to deliver a keynote speech opening a new session of parliament, opposition members - who now form a majority in the assembly and reject Mugabe's authority to call them together - broke out in whistles, shouts and even song. From the opposition benches, where the MPs refused to stand, a chorus of "Zanu Yaora" rang out, meaning 'Zanu is rotten.' (Zanu...
...child, dissolved into tears. Dabbing his eyes with a tissue, he described how Liu's hamstring and Achilles tendon had caused excruciating pain and how sports hospital staff had tried intensive massage to heal the injuries. But it was of no use. The throbbing, exacerbated by a training session two days before, was so severe that the hurdler was shivering during rehab treatments. Liu was determined to compete unless the pain was "intolerable," said Feng Shuyong, China's head athletics coach. Apparently, it was. Mighty Liu Xiang had dropped...
When was the last time you and Cheech smoked together? Couple of years ago. Oh no, what am I saying? The other day. We had an autograph session. We smoked up. See how pot does? It's either a couple of years, or yesterday...
...relatively healthy 4.2%, but government statistics are dodgy, in part because significant numbers of China's millions of migrant workers go uncounted. The slowdown is a cause for national, not just provincial, concern. In early July, the country's state council huddled with top economic policymakers in an emergency session to discuss options for rekindling growth. Officials in Beijing "are very concerned, much more so than they were even just a month ago," says one government economic adviser who was briefed on the sessions. "Containing inflation is no longer the primary focus of the government. Rightly or wrongly, they...
...mostly) platitudes. I was leading a small discussion group with several high-powered attendees. The subject of the discussion was Russia, and the participants included, among others, former U.S. ambassador to Moscow Thomas Pickering and his old boss, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. At the end of the session, I went around the table and asked a last question: Vladimir Putin - President for life...