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The brightest of these stars is Liu Xiang, a 110-m hurdler whose world-record-breaking sprints disprove the notion that Chinese bodies are somehow inferior to foreign ones in high-piston sporting events. (After winning a gold in Athens, Liu said his "victory has proved that athletes with yellow...
Broadcaster Jim McKay, who died June 7 at age 86, traveled some 4 million miles in his 37 years with ABC's Wide World of Sports, "spanning the globe," as the show's slogan put it, to bring viewers "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." And wherever...
In his article "in Carter's shadow," Ramesh Ponnuru states that former President Carter "eked out a paper-thin victory only because of Watergate, stagflation and defeat in Vietnam" [June 9]. That's like saying we won World War II only because we had a superior military, we were a...
It was billed as a crunch vote, one that the government couldn't afford to lose without fatally undermining the already rickety authority of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Labour Party loyalists, keen to prevent a rebellion, pumped out that urgent message to persuade all their colleagues in Parliament to back...
On paper, Brown triumphed in both debates when the measure squeaked through by 315 votes to 306. Yet the government's knife-edge victory saw 36 Labour MPs, including former ministers, oppose the government, and relied on the support of nine members of the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party. Brown...