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...grand scheme of things, of course, the Indian election is the bigger story, but the struggle for control of Liverpool is just as colorful and illuminating. (I had better declare an interest. Both my parents were born within a stone's throw of Liverpool's stadium, and I have been a rabid fan since I could walk...
...Harvard clinched the doubles point, the momentum and the attention of every fan in the stadium...
...completion of a sports stadium is usually a boring business involving a ribbon, a pair of scissors, maybe a magnum of champagne. But when engineers last week conducted a test of the sliding roof over the 75,000-seat Olympic Stadium in Athens - the venue for the opening ceremony on Aug. 13 - the event was filled with drama and anxiety. Its outcome would determine whether the architectural centerpiece of the Games would get to wear its Santiago-Calatrava-designed cap or stand roofless under the Mediterranean sun - and whether security experts and television crews could move into the stadium...
...possible global psychology," says a senior organizing official, "these are blockbuster sales." As for Greeks themselves, in a recent poll 97% said they welcome the Olympics, despite all the difficulties. In the village of Marathon, Martha Sirakou, 43, a housewife whose mountain views have been obscured by a new stadium, is ready to greet the world anyway. "This is the price you have to pay," she explains, "for living where it all began...
...from committed separatists who regarded him as a Kremlin stooge to some Russian security and military officials wary of his growing autonomy. One of those foes killed him on May 9 by placing a bomb inside a concrete pillar beneath the stands at Grozny's Dynamo Stadium, where the former mufti was attending a ceremony to mark the anniversary of Russia's victory over Nazi Germany. Six others died in the blast and up to 89 were injured, including General Valery Baranov, the commander of Russian troops in Chechnya. Putin's immediate response was to vow that "retribution is unavoidable...