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South Carolina, where a Confederate battle flag still flies on the capitol grounds off Gervais Street and where dying but persistent de facto segregation still divides church life and civic organizations, will be a test of just how deeply the skirmish has resonated with voters. Sixty years after South Carolina governor (later Senator) Strom Thurmond created the Dixiecrats, rupturing a Democratic Party he found insufficiently racist, the state is poised to remind Americans how far they have come--or how much further they still have...
...When the Big Red came alive in the second period, peppering shot after shot on goal, Richter stepped up to the challenge. Although Cornell never relented in its offensive attack, Richter kept the Big Red at bay. From snatching the puck mid-air to diving on it after a skirmish by the net, Richter made some crucial saves in the crease. Fending off heavy pressure from Cornell and keeping the Crimson in the game, Richter made 12 saves that period and 22 overall. “He’s come in and really thrown the team on his back...
...Beijing to act. So far, the police have not moved in to evict them, probably because Xiantang is small and the discontent shows no sign of spreading. But the villagers' resolve is fading. "People have to get back to work," says one protester. Beijing can no doubt win this skirmish by ignoring it. But the war on corruption will not be won by looking the other...
...working to diffuse the crisis, and on the government in Baghdad, which leapt to the defense of the Kurdish region. And since many Kurdish observers suspect that Iraqi Kurdish independence - not just the PKK - is the target of Turkey's efforts, the Turks may have already won this skirmish in the battle of northern Iraq...
TIME has obtained an incident report prepared by the U.S. government describing the fire fight Sunday. According to the incident report, the skirmish occurred at 12:08 p.m. on Sunday when, "the motorcade was engaged with small arms fire from several locations" as it moved through a neighborhood of west Baghdad. "The team returned fire to several identified targets" before leaving the area. One vehicle engine was hit and disabled by bullets and had to be towed away. A separate convoy arriving to help was "blocked/surrounded by several Iraqi police and Iraqi national guard vehicles and armed personnel," the report...