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...Blake, or just a fan of Harvard in general, this U.S. Open match meant something more.Last year, I lucked out. My family and I bought tickets to Wednesday night at the U.S. Open during the second week three months before the tournament draw was even announced. Through an astonishing twist of fate, lo and behold these tickets became the passes to the Blake-Agassi quarterfinal that, at approximately 12:43 A.M. Thursday morning, turned into the best match at the Open in the past 25 years. And after Andre cracked a forehand return winner down the line, a fitting...
...from Sudan's oil fields. Beijing has blocked the threat of U.N. sanctions against Sudan's regime and protects it in other ways. But with the bodies piling up in Darfur, would China, which abstained in the Security Council vote on a peacekeeping force, try to twist Khartoum's arm to accept U.N. troops? Probably not. "They tend to see this whole problem in terms of economic investments rather than human rights," says Suliman Baldo, Africa Program Director at International Crisis Group (ICG), an NGO that aims to help prevent conflict. At the same time, says Baldo, "you feel that...
Everyone knows that the Japanese are the kings of karaoke: they invented it, continue to improve sound-quality technology (if not the human voice part) and introduced karaoke boxes - private singing rooms for small groups. And anyone in London can now indulge in this latest twist on the popular Asian pastime, thanks to lastminute.com entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox. Her brainchild is [an error occurred while processing this directive] the Soho-based Lucky Voice, the British capital's most authentically Japanese karaoke bar featuring nine private rooms that hold up to 12 people. Once you and your fellow croonies have settled...
...doubt the biblical twist will add to the intrigue of the infamous crime network, which over the past century has occasionally crossed paths with the Roman Catholic church. But Cosa Nostra's sins share nothing with those of the Da Vinci Code or Francis Ford Coppola films - they are real. Provenzano is believed to have had a hand in the slayings of countless rival gang members, as well as of innocent bystanders and crusading magistrates. It's no longer a secret that some mobsters are deeply religious. The mystery remains that they can reconcile what they read in the holy...
...were crushed, but hopeful. We saw back then what we were capable of at our best, and now find ourselves just moving on, willing to listen to our leaders but not necessarily believe them, supporting the troops but disputing their mission, waiting, more resigned than resolved, for the next twist in the plot...