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...match against Zimbabwe, and Maulana Inzamam-ul Haq Multani will lead the prayers." SMS MESSAGE circulated widely in Pakistan after the country's powerful cricket team was defeated by Ireland during the Cricket World Cup in Jamaica. Inzamam-ul Haq, captain of Pakistan's team, stepped down following the shock loss, hours after the team's head coach, Bob Woolmer, died of unknown causes-a death Jamaican police said they were treating as "suspicious...
...most Europeans, national identity is still more important than any pan-European identity. That doesn't shock me; I myself am a French citizen first, and then a European. What shocks me is the notion that, by withdrawing into our own corners, we will resolve the great challenges of globalization and technological progress...
...campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly." The words from John Edwards were a shock, coming as they did after he and his wife Elizabeth had spent the opening minutes of their press conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., describing how her breast cancer had returned, and spread to her bones. Just moments before, John Edwards had explained that because his wife's cancer had spread "from breast to bone, it is no longer curable." With that grim statement, I - and, presumably, many other listeners - assumed that the former North Carolina Senator and top-tier contender for the 2008 Democratic...
...Russians, he is unrepentant: "It was a shock," says Ungr, who had been six times to the "Soyuz" (Russian shorthand for the Soviet Union), of what is now referred to as the 1968 Soviet occupation. "We were hugging them just moments ago and now we should fight? Those boys who came here, it was not their fault...
...Being Tasered might be preferable to being shot, but it is certainly no picnic. The weapon that would find itself in the hands of the CPD shoots four barbs that embed themselves up to 0.3 inches into a victims’ skin and deliver a 50,000-volt electrical shock. Cambridge Police Lieutenant Stephen A. Ahern, who was willingly Tasered at a public demonstration, told the Cambridge Chronicle afterward that, “It was the longest five seconds of my life. The electrical current feels like the pulse of a jackhammer.” Though the weapons are classified...