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...Tulsa on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week, advancing two rounds past top-flight opponents in the 32-team, single-elimination tournament. The 38th-ranked pair, which usually plays at No. 1 doubles for the Crimson, earned a spot in the tournament by winning the ITA National Summer Championships in early August. In Kumar and Ermakov’s first match, they faced No. 12 Blake Strode and Colin Mascall from Arkansas. Playing nervously early in the match, the Harvard team lost its serve. Down a break at 7-4, Kumar and Ermakov held their serve and then, thanks...
...struggling ground between the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade, a rival Shi'ite militia also though to have links to Iran. American forces remained on the sidelines as the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade waged bloody campaigns against one another across southern Iraq this summer. On August 28, gunmen from the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade battled in the streets of Karbala for hours in fighting that left more than 50 people dead. And a series of assassinations of local leaders across southern Iraq in recent months is widely thought to be a campaign by the Mahdi...
...from the monarch to the Prime Minister. Beyond the maneuverings of an avowedly republican party, other signs of change have appeared. In July, a weekly satirical magazine called El Jueves published a cartoon that depicted the heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, having sex with his wife. Over the summer, leaders of ten Andalusian towns signed a motion in the regional parliament that would "situate the democratic fight for a republic on the political agenda...
...Since the nation returned to work from summer vacations last month, scarcely a day has passed without additional gloomy economic news undermining the can-do confidence Sarkozy had sought to instill in the French public. In September, it was announced that the nation's slowly shrinking unemployment rate had reversed course and increased slightly during the previous month to nearly 8.1%. Later, word came that the year-end economic growth the government had hoped might reach 2.5% was set to increase only 1.8%, in part due to French businesses continuing to create few new jobs...
...memoir, Peeling the Onion, which was published in Germany last year and in the U.S. this summer, Grass revealed for the first time that, after joining the armed forces at age 16 in the fall of 1944, he was drafted into the SS, the fanatical branch of Adolf Hitler's army -although by the time he took up arms, the war was all but over. (He writes, credibly, that he never actually fired a shot.) Grass's memoir describes in detail the conditions he encountered in the chaotic retreat before the advancing Red Army in the closing months...