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...Emos are just one of the colorful youth cultures popular in the U.S. and Europe that have swept over the Rio Grande as the nation opens up its economy and politics and a new generation grows up with the Internet and cable TV. Punks, goths, rockabillies, rastas, breakdancers, skaters and metallers all now pace Mexican streets, adorn its plazas and spray paint its walls. But while most of the trends have met with a begrudging acceptance, emos have provoked a violent backlash. As well as running riot in Queretaro, a mob also attacked emos in the heart of Mexico City...
...political change--the election was swept by the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT, or Virtuous Bhutan Party), which is seen as the more royalist of the two--comes as Bhutan grapples with its shifting place in the world. Squeezed between giants China and India, it has slowly opened up over the past few decades. There still may not be a single stoplight in the capital, Thimphu, but there are Internet cafés. Bhutan's royal leaders are prodding their tiny nation into the rushing stream of globalization. "The concerns of the nation are the same--everyone is aware of them," says...
...Americans swept into Japan and swept out. Two capacity games on two consecutive nights (44,628 on Tuesday and 44,735 on Wednesday) thrilled the baseball-mad locals as the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland A's split their season openers in Tokyo, the third time Major League Baseball (MLB), the U.S. sports association, has staged such an event in the last eight years. When the second game (which the A's took 5-1) was over at 9:51 p.m., the two teams, barely recovered from jet lag from the trip over, hopped a bus for nearby Haneda...
...NCAA Frozen Four semifinals with all the odds stacked in its favor. While the game was played in a neutral location in Duluth, Minn., Harvard was the team with the No. 1 ranking, having cruised to a 32-1-0 season in which the team won the Beanpot, swept through the ECAC playoffs, and trounced Dartmouth, 5-1, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament...
...which she says she helped rehabilitate a broken and importunate McCartney, mourning his late wife Linda. (For example, the formality with which the ex-Beatle loaned Mills money, the judge wrote, belied a seamless emotional bond). He also wrote: "The wife for her part must have felt rather swept off her feet by a man as famous as the husband. I think this may well have warped her perception leading her to indulge in make-believe. The objective facts simply do not support her case...