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...leaked to the media, Chappell described the 32-year-old as "struggling," "fragile" and "nervous" and suggested he needed to step down as captain to focus on improving his game. The bust-up has riveted India, where, as the Bombay tabloid Mid Day noted, "the game is religion." The spat has played endlessly on local TV, while rival protesters have burned effigies of Chappell and Ganguly in the streets...
...letter to Summers dated July 14, Harper cited his displeasure with Summers’ January comments on women and minorities, his 2002 spat with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, and a disagreement with James R. Houghton ’56, the Corporation’s senior fellow, about Summers’ salary, among the reasons for his resignation...
...read those they take into custody their rights, a ruling Rehnquist had savaged over the years. "Miranda has become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture," Rehnquist wrote in an opinion that the fiery young Rehnquist would have spat upon. For the aging Rehnquist, tradition weighed heavily...
...save the world, but a return to the living God." But Benedict's first trip abroad was also a reminder that the 78-year-old Pontiff is a novice as a foreign leader. His visit to a Cologne synagogue on Friday came less than a month after a diplomatic spat erupted with Israel, which had lashed out at Benedict for not including the Jewish state in a list of countries recently hit by terrorism. Issues of religious extremism and inter-faith conflict pose the toughest foreign-policy challenges for this Pope. And the signs are that he intends to talk...
Harper’s relationship with Summers deteriorated following the president’s public spat with West, whom Harper felt had been unfairly targeted by Summers...