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...struggled against Darren Oliver and Oliver Perez. I think anybody with the name Oliver right now. They're both great pitchers. Oliver Perez is tough on lefties because he'll switch up his angles; he changes up speeds very well, throws a slider and a big curveball. And Darren Oliver's got a nice little cutter that kind of keeps you off balance a little...
...world first, Xstrata, a $28 billion Swiss global mining company, has agreed to fund an endangered species' recovery. In exchange for spending millions on the marsupial, Xstrata's name will appear on everything wombat: from websites to educational DVDs to shirts worn by wildlife workers. Xstrata execs will also star in documentaries about the northern hairy-nose and speak at media events. Call it the ultimate in green corporate branding...
...reception has been good, though not Sudoku-mania good. (Then again, Sudoku wasn't an instant hit either; an Indiana architect devised the game in the 1970s, but it languished for decades under the unfortunate name Number Place.) Only five years old, KenKen already appears in the Times of London and Le Figaro in Paris, and it's coming soon to an iPhone near...
...nothing else, the name KenKen has been well received. It even inspired NYU professor Amanda Yesnowitz to pen a parody of Cole Porter's "Can-Can," which she debuted at the tournament: "If a lad called Jennings, Ken, can ... If John Glenn, in his den, now and then can ... Can Obama? Yes, he KenKen!" Afterward, the president of Nextoy, which owns the puzzle's rights outside Japan, approached her about posting the song on his company's website, but she was too distracted by a nearby conversation, gasping, "Did Will just say my name...
...People lined the streets of Accra: shopping for themselves, rushing to catch tro-tros, and selling curios to the obrunis (Westerners) studying or working in Ghana. As I maneuvered through the crowds, I noticed that I was being greeted with a familiar name: “Obama! Obama!” Yes—that Obama. My engagement in the U.S. presidential election was not lessened because I was in Ghana this summer, but it was actually heightened by the opportunity to view this watershed historical moment through a Ghanaian lens. Being an American in Ghana meant an inevitable association...