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...Yale pitcher Chris Finneran lost control of the strike zone, issuing two walks to bring up Rouches and prompting a visit to the mound from his coach...
...that you have avoided joining the stampede of writers to New York? Did you ever consider that? Yes, but I really just like being home. I'm a huge homebody and I just love it here. New York is great to visit, but I just would never dream of moving anywhere. Anywhere. If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house...
...China's leaders are using the crisis to point out what they regard as flaws in Western capitalism. On a visit to Europe in January, Premier Wen Jiabao called China a "great power" and then criticized "an unsustainable model'' of development in the West that partnered a lack of savings and "blind pursuit of profit." Vice President Xi Jinping, on a recent trip to Mexico, blasted his hosts for harping on China's human-rights record, saying "there are a few foreigners, with full bellies, who have nothing better to do than try to point fingers at our country...
...trust" between the two groups. Yanar Mohammed's organization has been petitioning, unsuccessfully thus far, to be legally registered as an NGO and women's shelter, which would allay fears that it could be shut down at any moment. It has also sought, but been refused, permission to visit Baghdad's women's prison, where it previously identified victims of trafficking who were locked up for offenses committed as a result of being trafficked, like having false documents or prostitution...
Salim says some NGOs used the prison visits "in a political way, or in the media not in the right way." The government will visit the prisons and set up women's shelters, she says, as well as train select NGOs to help fulfill those roles. Some old habits clearly die hard. But new ones are slowly forming. "Many people say there is no trafficking in Iraq - they refuse to admit this phenomenon," says Fath Allah, head of the inter-ministerial committee. "But we say that this exists and we are working to prevent it from happening. There will...