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...second half] we concentrated more on the little things. Our backs did a good job of marking their forwards,” Kimmel explained. “Georgia [McGillivray] did a great job on one of their best players [Poland] and really slow[ed] her down. We turned up the pressure and Cynthia [Tassapoulos] made some great saves...
...community of editors that’s sharply divided. The New York Times insists on “health care.” Reuters, on the other hand, is an unapologetic convert to “healthcare.” The Oxford English Dictionary—notoriously slow to respond to common usage—lists it as two words. Dictionary.com—with its modern, online perspective—says one. (A search through The Crimson’s archive reveals both...
...month despite his failure to confront corruption.) Though Ringera's resignation was considered a good sign, the Kenyan government's primary response to the letters was to accuse Obama of a breach of protocol for writing to the 15 officials directly rather than to Kibaki. Instead of acknowledging the slow pace of reform, Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula suggested that actions like the U.S.'s could "precipitate the hardening of the mood over the reform process." Then Kenyan officials blamed U.S. ambassador Michael Ranneberger, who was given the task of announcing that the letters were sent. Ranneberger was summoned...
...Getting lake-conservation measures on the books has been slow to nonexistent. In the absence of effective public management, some 14 local environmental groups have been working in different ways to preserve the waters; a few have even filed lawsuits against local and state governing boards seeking urgent judicial intervention to clean up Udaipur's lakes and check the flow of pollutants into these water bodies. Following up on suits that began in 1982, the state's high court directed the government in 2007 to consider establishing a Lakes Development Authority, implement a "no-construction zone," undertake continuous de-silting...
Even with a treaty, though, high profile extraditions can take years to complete. Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was living in New York Cit? in 1964 when authorities discovered she had actually been a guard at Ravensbruck, a Nazi concentration camp. She was stripped of her U.S. citizenship but the slow legal process - both Germany and Poland wanted to extradite her - kept her in the the country until 1973, when she was finally sent to West Germany. And even though former Panamanian general Manuel Noriega finished his U.S. prison sentence in 2007, he still remains in jail while the legal system decides...