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...also made belittling comments about U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, landing himself in the middle of an embarrassing international press frenzy. Addressing Sarkozy's remarks, Royal said on April 18 that she'd written to friend and fellow Socialist Zapatero begging his pardon for the slight, and stressing that "those statements represent neither France nor the French people". (Read "Sarkozy: Obama 'Weak, Inexperienced and Badly Briefed...
...highly competitive first varsity race set the tone for the following contests. Navy and Harvard’s varsity eights raced down the course neck and neck until the 1000-meter mark, where the Crimson was able to gain a slight lead. The Midshipmen inched back in the following 1000 meters, but was unable to adequately respond to Harvard’s competitive edge and slight lead...
...Hawaii's average score of 6.6% topped the happy list - though even in the Aloha State, that represented a slight darkening from the positively giddy 6.3% in the earlier survey. The next sunniest states were Kansas and Nebraska, which tied at 7.5%. Almost everywhere, though, the trend lines were down. Overall, 44 states plus the District of Columbia scored worse on the second survey than on the first; one remained unchanged; and only five (Colorado, Minnesota, North Dakota, Texas and Iowa) improved. Even then, the downtick in FMD was less than 1%. And while it's true that even...
...mixed it up with most of our pairings,” Konstadt said. “We have four good skippers, but only three can compete at a time, so they are constantly rotating. We were forced to make these slight modifications due to the northwest winds...
...total of around 15% of the vote taken by Muslim parties is a historical low - it was over more than double that just five years ago. Rising to the fourth position was the Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, the only Muslim-oriented party to make a strong showing, however slight - the party took 7.7% compared to 7.3% in 2004. Two smaller Muslim parties in the current parliament failed to even reach the threshold of 2.5% of the national vote. "Clearly, the people are not looking for parties based on religion," suggests Masdar Hilmy, a lecturer at the State Islamic University...