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...Clinton says he "aced" all his stress tests and had no major symptoms until last week. That's not unusual. According to Shah, in about 40% of cases, the first indication of heart disease is a heart attack or sudden death. "I feel really blessed," Clinton told TV-host Larry King last Friday, "because a lot of people who have a heart attack don't get any warning...
During warfare, a sudden lull in hostilities can sometimes be mistaken for a truce. But in the battle between French President Jacques Chirac and his hyper-ambitious Finance Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, don't bet on seeing a white flag. Last week France's worst-kept secret was confirmed by the news that Sarkozy will seek the presidency of Chirac's own Union for a Popular Movement (ump) party. The wildly popular Sarkozy, a shoo-in to grab the ump's leadership position in November, will try to use the party's mighty electoral machine to win the 2007 presidential election...
...block inside the cordon, there was no traffic, the no man's land between the front lines was ruled by a horrible silence broken by sudden explosions. It was deserted except for a few Iraqi men hiding in doorways who offered refuge and tea. We started to see signs of fighting, blown out windows and burned buildings, but this was just the edge of the battlefield; it would get much worse as we went deeper into the city. We walked another block and saw three teenagers near the charred remains of a car who asked us where we were going...
...scandal that got him, the one that led to his sudden fall, was tangled up with homosexuality. For gay Americans, the Governor's words recalled the blistering shame and crushing fear that can accompany an adolescent's realization that he is gay. "I often felt ambivalent about myself," said McGreevey, who turned 47 this month. He compensated by being a good Catholic kid, a member of a pious high school group called the God Squad, according to the New York Times. He toiled fiercely--to transfer from Catholic University to Columbia; to become an assemblyman, mayor and state senator...
...thrilling races with an array of breakout stars like Japan's Kosuke Kitajima, who swept the men's breaststroke races, and France's Laure Manaudou, just 17, who picked up freestyle gold and silver, backstroke bronze and a new nickname: L'Or (the Golden) Manaudou. No starburst was more sudden and surprising than that of Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, 22. First, the cherubic swimmer won silver in the 100-m backstroke and bronze in the 200-m individual medley - her troubled country's first medals since 1980, and the first swimming medals ever for any African nation besides South Africa...