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...Last month, General Norton Schwartz, nominated as chief of the U.S. Air Force, said at his confirmation hearing that the U.S. needed to send a warning to Moscow in the wake of Russian media reports claiming that Moscow was weighing the deployment of nuclear-capable bombers in Cuba in response to U.S. missile-defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Russians should be told that moving bombers to Cuba "crosses a red line for the United States of America," he said. Let's just say that the Russian military brass have long felt the same way about Ukraine...
...needed every one of those landings to stay ahead of Johnson. The gold-silver finish is one that the two girls had talked about, since they find themselves in the unusual position of not only being chief rivals for the most coveted crown in gymnastics, but also friends and, at this Games, roommates. Two teenagers, two competitors, one bathroom. Sounds scary, doesn...
Steve Roush, chief of sport performance for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), admits there's no real excuse for the America's dismal Olympic handball record, which is 4 wins, 26 losses, 1 tie and yet another seat on the bench in '08. "I'm absolutely on the same wavelength," says Roush. "There's an athlete pool out there we can tap into to be successful. We have struggled for decades to figure out a formula...
After back-to-back disgraces, the Chinese coaches may have gotten their teams clean, but they also disappeared from the medals tables. "We are working hard to rebuild our credit in international swimming," Yuan Jiawei, former chief of the Chinese swimming association, told the Chinese state media in 2004. "It will be a long-term effort." By the 2004 Athens Games, that campaign had begun to pay off. China captured a gold and a silver in swimming with nary a failed drug test...
...making clear that it had no ships headed toward the Black Sea. On Thursday morning, Gates made it clear that the humanitarian effort - limited so far to a pair of C-17s bringing shelter, clothing and medicine to Tibilisi - wasn't quite as brawny as the commander-in-chief had suggested. In fact, it is all happening "under the direction of the State Department," he noted...