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...early test for us,” captain Teddy Schreck added. “It was a good opportunity to see the crews we’ll be competing against later on for the national championship...We had encouraging results, and it is nice to show this speed early on in the season...
...early night, it turned out, was well advised, for at 4:30 a.m. press secretary Robert Gibbs was forced to wake the president from his slumber. North Korea had launched a long-expected test missile into the Sea of Japan, in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution. (See TIME's photos of the Obama-Sarkozy meeting in Strasbourg...
When it comes to sticking a finger in the rest of the world's eye, Kim Jong Il is always as good as his word. For days, the U.S. and North Korea's neighbors in east Asia kept insisting that Pyongyang stand down from plans to test an intercontinental rocket. But on Sunday morning, North Korea launched it anyway - as it pledged to - saying the rocket bore nothing more than a communications satellite. With six U.S. cruisers equipped with Aegis anti-missile systems deployed in the region - to watch and gather intelligence, not fire on the rocket, Pentagon officials...
...match for the California ruling. It took up each argument against gay marriage and dispatched them with a minimum of bombast. An exception was the vivid language employed by the court to cement its position that gays have indeed been discriminated against as a class - a traditional test for whether a group deserves the protection of heightened constitutional scrutiny. "The County does not, and could not in good faith, dispute the historical reality that gay and lesbian people as a group have long been the victim of purposeful and invidious discrimination because of their sexual orientation. The long and painful...