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...clearing 1.79 meters on her first attempt in the high jump, junior Becky Christensen became just the third woman in Harvard history to claim a Penn Relays medal and headlined a triumphant weekend for the Crimson track and field team, split between the three-day relays in Philadelphia and the Wildcat Invitational III hosted...
...jailed for his opposition to Mugabe, although they were spoken not in Zimbabwe, but in the South African city of Johannesburg, where the opposition leader has been courting support for demands that the election results be immediately released. Tsvangirai may, in fact, be on the verge of making a triumphant return home. On Tuesday, electoral officials are at last expected to announce the results of the presidential poll, which Tsvangirai insists that he has won by a margin greater than the 50% majority he needs to avoid a runoff race against Mugabe...
...first Americans to be accepted by the international Magnum photo agency, photographer Burt Glinn captured several defining moments of the cold war, including Fidel Castro's triumphant march across Cuba and seldom-seen images of daily life in the Soviet Union. Glinn turned his lens on seemingly unlikely subjects, transforming subtleties into iconic moments, as in his 1959 photograph of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev before the Lincoln Memorial. Glinn attributed that shot--his best-known work--to chance. "I was late, and I couldn't get to where everybody else was," he explained. "The most important thing that...
...Medvedev's four-year term expires in 2012. If Putin's party does amend the Constitution, extending presidential tenure to five or seven years, as many expect, Putin might yet have his triumphant Kremlin comeback. The question is whether Medvedev's entourage might entice their man to move beyond the playground sandbox to which Putin has relegated the presidency. In the unlikely event Medvedev elects to challenge his mentor, it will quickly become clear which end of the power spectrum is dominant...
...news to an already hurting public, Sarkozy had some reason for hope. Polls released early this week showed his approval rating rising to 40% in March from February's 37%, the low point in what had been his 30% drop since July. The fillip stemmed from Sarkozy's triumphant state visit to London last month, where his sober demeanor impressed a French public that has wearied of his taste for flash. The "re-presidentialization" of his image seemed to be winning back many of the conservative voters turned off by Sarkozy's earlier "bling-bling" persona; Elysée officials...