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...apartheid, the country has hosted successful cricket and rugby World Cups, and the country hopes the soccer tournament will mark a new moment of unity in its divided history. Adversity also plagued the build-up to the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Eight months before the start of the tournament, a massive earthquake killed 10,000 people in Mexico City and caused the media to speculate about the possibility of moving the event elsewhere. But Mexico held on to the tournament and doggedly rebuilt the capital in order to stage what many consider to be one of the greatest World...
...congress, which is organized through the mayor’s office, is designed to jump start local action on environmental problems...
...former attorney general). There is no public record that the government ever issued a competitive tender for the cars. "When every single vehicle is bought from one dealer and nobody could remember ever seeing an advertisement from the government saying, 'We want to buy these vehicles,' alarm bells start ringing," says Mwalimu Mati, who runs an anticorruption organization called Mars Group Kenya. "That's the reaction that people had." (See the most important cars of all time...
...down season. He had been banned from playing the first six games of his rookie season because the NCAA deemed him “partially professional” due to time spent playing on an English club. After the frustration of having to sit out the start of his season, Smith saw playing time in each of the remaining 11 games, starting eight...
...more cross-pollination, it would make a huge difference,” she said. “Until we start working across the issues and doubling our strength, we won’t make progress...