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...watch Tobias Summerer implode in a winnable match against Ivan Ljubicic, the 18th seeds. Three reckless shots cost him the second set, while his lone fan tried to encourage him in German, although not too loudly. Ljubicic looked like he was mad at everyone; his serve was just vicious and its force drew occasional gasps from the crowd...
...soaring price of oil irrelevant? No, but this oil crisis is different. When OPEC choked off supplies in the 1970s and '80s, it set off a vicious circle of inflation, soaring interest rates and economic decline. But this time, oil prices are rising for the opposite reason: a big growth in demand, particularly from China, rather than a curtailing of supply. In addition, developed countries have generally reduced their dependence on oil as services have replaced manufacturing, while central banks have become smarter about nipping inflation in the bud. And critically, China's status as the low-cost workshop...
...Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of rape and defended by Gregory Peck, in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles. Born George Fisher in Harlem, N.Y., the gifted bass singer toured cabaret clubs before making his film debut in 1954 as a vicious sergeant in Otto Preminger's landmark all-black production of Carmen Jones. Determined to shed his villainous image, he played a gay trumpet player in the film The L-Shaped Room and won a Tony nomination for his lead role as a South African preacher in the 1972 Broadway musical Lost...
...your Tonks, your Luna, your Buckbeak, your Fred and George--for a final sunlit outing before chaos overtakes Harry. Having carefully built a cozy fictional universe over five previous books, Rowling has the task of tearing it apart, and there are several tableaux of genuinely surreal horrors, including a vicious werewolf (not at all cuddly like Lupin). The book ends with a shockingly violent reversal that permanently and painfully alters the fixed stars of Harry's life. Which is to say that once again, somebody dies...
...backlash came quickly. Nationalists, who still dominate local media and politics, launched a vicious campaign against Natasa Kandic, the Serbian human rights activist who had uncovered the tape and given it to the Hague tribunal. Kandic, named as one of Time's Heroes in 2003 for her work exposing war crimes, has been branded a traitor and the leader of a conspiracy to demonize her own country - a group of legislators even called for a national referendum to stop her from working in Serbia, while others wanted her locked up in a mental hospital. A scheduled TV appearance in Kikinda...