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...chance. As Mugabe, 84, entered parliament to open the new legislative session, opposition members - who now form a majority and reject Mugabe's authority to call them together - broke out in whistles, shouts and song. MPs refused to stand, and a chorus of "ZANU yaora," or "ZANU is rotten," rang out around the chamber. (ZANU is the shortened acronym for Mugabe's party...
...speech opening a new session of parliament, opposition members - who now form a majority in the assembly and reject Mugabe's authority to call them together - broke out in whistles, shouts and even song. From the opposition benches, where the MPs refused to stand, a chorus of "Zanu Yaora" rang out, meaning 'Zanu is rotten.' (Zanu is the shortened acronym for Mugabe's party, the Zanu-PF or Zimbabwean African Union-Patriotic Front.) Mugabe tried to ignore the noise and continued to speak but many of his words were lost...
Peter Norman was the other guy in one of the most famous images of the 20th century. As The Star-Spangled Banner rang out during presentations for the 200-m sprint at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, the Australian silver medalist gazed at the flag rising in his honor. Behind him, history was being made. Tommie Smith and John Carlos used the occasion to protest their country's treatment of African Americans, each raising a gloved fist in the Black Power salute, a gesture of solidarity and defiance. Bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee, U.S. authorities sent...
...Israeli police were preparing a security cordon around the King David Hotel for the Tuesday night arrival of Senator Barack Obama, shots rang out a short distance away - Israeli civilians and police shot dead an Arab bulldozer driver who'd gone on a rampage overturning vehicles and wounding 11 people...
Wall Street had its ups and downs last week--plenty of both. After the opening bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 45.75 points, to 1840.15, the worst one-day decline in history. Trading veterans, by now used to the spectacular gyrations of the ) continuing bull market, were relatively unfazed. For one thing, the drop represented only 2.43% of the Dow's value, a far cry from catastrophe. Sure enough, the plunge soon halted, and on Friday the Dow stormed back 36.06 points--its eighth-best day ever--to close...