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...gray, windswept afternoon in Warsaw, and Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister, is running late. His flight in from Gdansk has been delayed by a storm; the schedule is tight. The Georgian President has come to visit, and then there's the weekend trip to Washington to talk over missile defense with George W. Bush. Three guests are waiting in the Chancellery when Tusk arrives. "I am not crazy about this job," he sighs, plunking down in an armchair and unbuttoning his jacket. That's understandable. Nineteen years after his country broke free from the Soviet bloc, it is still...
...interesting, but not surprising, is that the vast majority of men who experienced low sexual desire were completely unwilling to talk with their wives, go to a doctor or go to a therapist. In a culture that equates masculinity with virility, it's no wonder that these guys are tight-lipped...
...goals to close out the half. The Crimson trailed 8-5 heading into the locker rooms. Curtis was satisfied with her team’s ability to play with one of the top squads in the country. “We came out fired up and it stayed really tight throughout the whole first half,” said Curtis, whose goal set the pace for the early play. Penn’s offensive momentum continued into the second half. Harvard was first on the board with an early goal from Bancroft, but the Quakers responded with four quick scores...
...Chijoff-Evans won 8-2, and Omodele-Lucien and Nguyen completed the sweep with an 8-4 victory at No. 3.In singles, No. 1 Kumar and No. 2 Clayton each won 6-4, 6-3, while No. 4 Nguyen won 6-4, 6-1.At No. 3 Ermakov lost a tight match in a super-tiebreaker after splitting the first two sets.Though Chijoff-Evans and Omodele-Lucien lost their Ivy League debuts, their teammates rallied around them.“I remember when we played our first Ivy League matches,” Kumar said. “We were so nervous...
...Chinese government would agree that it's shameful, but not in where the blame lies. Though China has remained fairly tight-lipped in the wake of the London and Paris relay fiascos, it earlier denounced efforts by Menard and fellow activists on March 25 to disrupt the lighting of the torch in Greece in March. At that time, the spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang, said that "any act to disrupt the Olympic torch relay is shameful and unpopular." He also warned "that competent authorities in countries through which the torch relay will pass have the obligation...