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Though Harvard rookie Sophie Chang swept her match against Allison Hodges, it was arguably the most competitive contest of the day. Chang had to win a deciding seventh game in both sets, including a tiebreak in the first set. Chang pulled the match out with a 7-6 (7-4...
Disgrace already hung over the Rev. Marcial Maciel when he died in 2008 at the age of 87. In 2005, beset by burgeoning charges that he had sexually abused young seminarians for decades, the Mexican priest had resigned as head of the Legionaries of Christ, one of the Roman Catholic...
With thousands of polling places using paper ballots, and a ban on vehicle travel and other security measures for election day itself, the exact figures on voter turnout, as well as the results themselves, won't be known for days. But most Iraqis have been expecting a long, turbulent postelection...
More worrisome is the possibility that a postelection Iraq will take no direction at all. None of the five leading political blocs is likely to emerge from the election with enough seats in parliament to form a government on its own. That means Iraqis will most likely have to endure...
Amid those economic demands, another double-digit increase in military spending might be seen as excessive. But perhaps the most compelling reason for the slowdown in spending is that Chinese officials have become more cautious of the way the development of the People's Liberation Army is perceived abroad. Last...