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...circle that Stone kicked right back to her. Martinez fired another shot that forced Stone to make a difficult glove save. The Big Red appeared to score a few minutes before halftime when Kantarian buried a cross behind Stone. However, the referees conferred and determined that the pass struck a player’s foot before the shot. At halftime, Cornell had a slight edge in shots, 6-5, and corners, 3-1. The Big Red owned the second half. Seven minutes into the action, Horn was wide open and received the ball in the middle of the circle. Stone...
...climate change plans were being questioned months ago as heavy industries complained about the burdens they would have to shoulder and the jobs that were under threat. But in the past month, as the global credit crunch struck Europe with a vengeance, many governments have raised concerns about whether they could afford the bailouts as well as the emissions commitments...
...They are defending nearly twice as many seats as are the Democrats and were hit by a wave of retirements. What makes the turnabout more striking is that the Democratic challengers aren't particularly strong candidates. Several are inexperienced; others are more liberal than their states. Many seemed almost struck dumb when, as gasoline prices soared this summer, Republicans hit on the suddenly popular idea of drilling for more oil. But the market meltdown has replaced $4-per-gal. gas as voters' top concern, and ever since Herbert Hoover, voters have looked to Democrats in economic hard times...
...While that may be laudable in humanitarian terms, Bruni's defense of a convicted Red Brigade terrorist struck some as the summit of hypocrisy and indecency. As a child in the 1970s, Bruni fled Italy with her wealthy industrialist Bruni-Tedeschi family to take haven in France in fear they might be selected as targets by leftist terrorists during Italy's "years of lead." Roberto Della Rocca, who survived seven shots fired at him in 1980 by the Genovese faction of the Red Brigades, would not comment on the First Lady's role, saying that it is Sarkozy who must...
...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...