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Competing in the ECAC championships at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York, under the shadow of Arthur Ashe stadium, Chu blazed through his singles matches in the first three rounds before winning the clinching match against Virginia Tech in the finals yesterday morning...
Using a computerized climate model, the scientists calculated the consequences. "Like the rings of Saturn," suggests Boslough, "this ring cast a shadow over the tropics, drastically affecting the global climate." And unlike the dinosaurs' dust shroud, he says, the Eocene ring and its shadow persisted until the orbiting chunks were slowed by the upper fringes of the atmosphere, then finally dropped back to Earth. --By Leon Jaroff
Russia may be a shadow of its former superpower self, and its economy today is smaller than Portugal's. But it does still have the same power as the U.S., Britain, France and China to veto UN Security Council resolutions. That's why President Bush on Thursday sent an envoy to Moscow in an effort to persuade President Vladimir Putin to back a tough new UN ultimatum to Iraq to disarm, or else. Russia has maintained that Saddam Hussein's recent offer to comply with new arms inspections means that no new resolutions are necessary. But Kremlin-watchers have long...
Eleven directors of international repute each made a film intended to be precisely 11 min., 9 sec. and one frame long. Some were poignant (Sean Penn's, on a man living in the shadow of the Towers), some funny (Idrissa Ouedraogo's parable of African boys who spot an Osama bin Laden look-alike and try to cop the $25 million ransom). Several (from England, Bosnia, Egypt and Israel) pointed fingers at the U.S., saying, in effect, other countries have suffered atrocities for decades, so welcome to the club, America. No surprise that the film has opened in Europe...
...consider ourselves anti-Palestinian for taking that stand. Accusations of bigotry, whether launched at those who oppose Israeli policy or at those who oppose affirmative action, cast a dark shadow on public discourse. They threaten to mar the reputation of those they target and, as a result, can intimidate opponents into retreating from their views. Such accusations chill debate, in effect if not in intent...