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...toll of the comeback was evident as Broadbent lost the fourth game convincingly 9-3. After taking a 4-0 lead in the fifth game, the junior surrendered nine straight points to Schonborn and dropped the match...
...There were occasions when Wong could be kissed: tenderly, sexlessly, by a child (in her first starring role, The Toll of the Sea) or, greedily, by a rapacious, besotted Japanese general (in her last starring role, Lady from Chungking). But, so often, directors sidled up to the big smooch, then found an excuse to abort it, as with the white Fletcher and the Asian Hayakawa in Daughter of the Dragon and with Loder in Java Head. Decades after her death, the poet John Lau wrote a verse titled "No One Ever Tried to Kiss Anna May Wong." That...
...Being away from competition certainly takes its toll,” Sullivan added...
...consensus between Iraq's new political class and the insurgents who kept their promise to bloody the poll with a steady stream of attacks in the months preceding it, and which killed at least 41 people on election day despite the elaborate security procedures in place. Still, the death toll would almost certainly have been considerably higher had not banning all vehicles from the roads prevented car bombings. But the insurgents are almost certain to redouble their efforts in the coming weeks, as if to show that the election hasn't altered the strategic reality. And as long as turnout...
...doing enough? In a TIME/CNN poll conducted by TNS, nearly three-quarters of respondents in Indonesia and India?two of the worst-hit countries?say they are satisfied with the global and local responses to the disaster. In Indonesia, which last week raised its calculation of the national death toll from the tsunami to more than 166,000, 82% of those surveyed expressed satisfaction with the help provided by the international community. In India, which lost more than 10,000 people but turned down international aid, 70% of the respondents thought their government's aid was adequate...