Word: ecuadorean
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Harvard was outmatched from the start, as Texas Tech’s lineup of five Brazilian players and one Ecuadorean tore the Crimson apart. The Red Raiders took all three doubles by a score of 8-3, while in singles, Chijoff-Evans, Omodele-Lucien, and Nguyen lost in the top three spots to give Texas Tech...
Another green battleground has even stronger parallels to Avatar. In the Ecuadorean Amazon, indigenous groups have been waging a decades-long fight against the international energy company Chevron, claiming that years of poorly managed oil drilling has all but destroyed their ancestral forest homes. (Most of the work was done by Texaco, but Chevron bought the corporation in 2000.) There's currently a $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron - perhaps the largest ever such case concerning pollution - making its way through Ecuadorean courts, and a ruling is expected soon...
...especially those like Ecuador that are part of the region's resurgent left, confuse national sovereignty with their own idea that foreign aid should be provided gratis and without political strings. Because Latin military and security forces have an unfortunate history of sliding into drug lords' pockets - a former Ecuadorean deputy interior minister under Correa was recently charged with drug trafficking - it's not all that outrageous that the U.S. ask to have some input in exchange for aid (or "logistical support," per Astorga...
...resolution. He and Chavez still hope for an OAS condemnation as well as an apology and reassurance from Bogota that future raids will not occur, but Ecuador's Foreign Minister called the resolution "a triumph." What's more, while Correa may be furious with Uribe, Latin diplomats suggest the Ecuadorean leader was also put off last weekend when Chavez pre-empted him with his own tirade instead of allowing Correa to respond first - as if Chavez assumes he speaks for the rest of the continent...
...There should, for instance, be a system of fines and other penalties for losing coaches who accuse referees of incompetence, or worse. The most egregious example of this sort of scapegoating came last week, when Italy's Giovanni Trapattoni blamed Ecuadorean ref Byron Moreno for the Azzuri's inglorious defeat by South Korea. In addition to questioning Moreno's professional abilities, Trapattoni suggested obliquely that the official was ordered by FIFA to ensure a Korean victory so that one of the two host nations would remain in the tournament...