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SPORT: You gotta have wa...
...Japan, as in the U.S., baseball is a game of runs, hits and errors. But Japanese teams know the real ingredient for victory on the diamond is plenty of wa...
...from the modern nation. When the Belgian Congo became independent in 1960, it renamed itself the Republic of the Congo. Eleven years later, President Joseph Mobutu rechristened it the Republic of Zaire. A year later, he took his policy of "authenticity" personally, renaming himself Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Nbgendu Wa Za Banga, which means, more or less, "the all-powerful warrior who will go from conquest to conquest trailing fire in his wake...
Asked what issue was blocking agreement, which seemed so close on Wednesday, House Majority Leader Thomas S. Foley (D-Wa.) said: "Everything...
Even lack of water does not stop the determined. The town of Williamsburg, Iowa, staged a beach party last month when organizers trucked in 3 million lbs. of sand and declared that the pile was No-Wa-Wa Beach. Amid the tall corn, frolickers in bright trunks and coconut-shell bikinis played volleyball and rode around in convertibles. "It's easy for states that have oceans to have beach parties," says Organizer Steve Gander. "But in the middle of Iowa, we have to try a little harder...