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...Italian journalist Massimo Donaddio noted in the daily Il Sole 24 Ore that Saudi Arabia's coach, at the recent World Athletics Championships in Berlin, declared that his athletes would strictly follow the Ramadan fast during the competition. The Saudis won exactly zero medals, writes Donaddio - but then, so did the Italians...
...been charged as an adult but will not face the death penalty.) An eighth defendant, a woman charged as an accessory to the murder for allegedly providing a van used in the crime, has also pleaded not guilty. But investigators say Gonzalez's accomplices have fingered him as the sole gunman - and add that while they'd been lured by his promise of millions of dollars he believed Billings kept in a safe at the home, most of them didn't know Gonzalez allegedly planned a murder. As it was, the group -many of them captured on home security video...
What is solvable is the matter of Julia's boredom. Paul and she can't spend every waking minute together in a bistro, sharing divine sole meunière. "What should I do?" she asks him, just one of many moments when Streep's channeling of Child's speech patterns caused me to yelp with pleasure. She ends up at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school and discovers, triumphantly, that she has talent for it. She's also very pleased to defy the expectations of the Cordon Bleu's snooty director (Joan Juliet Buck), who didn't believe an American housewife stood...
Ahmadinejad is now fending off threats of being deposed by the country's hard-liners, his erstwhile allies. "It seems you want to be the sole speaker and do not want to hear other voices," declared an open letter to the President from one conservative group linked to parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani (a potential rival for the presidency). "Therefore, it is our duty to convey to you the voice of the people." The group, the Islamic Society of Engineers, alluded to a possible coup by comparing Ahmadinejad to both Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who was booted in a CIA-orchestrated...
...glitter and glam of the Barbie gathering at the Marriot Wardman Hotel may have seemed out of touch with the nation's economic woes, but "the Barbie market is very, very strong," says Sandi Holder, owner of the world's sole Barbie-only museum, located in Union City, Calif. And she should know: her biennial Barbie auction did well this year, despite the economy. Holder, who gave up her career as a pediatric intensive-care nurse in order to pursue her Barbie passion, even takes the cake with a world record: in 2004 she auctioned...