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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Recent Middlebury College graduate and Commissioner of the IQA Alex R. Benepe said that while regulation broomsticks are not required in Quidditch matches, they pose several advantages. The brooms are shorter than regular household brooms and thus easier to maneuver on the playing field...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Club Quidditch Team Works Budget Magic | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...baseball pose has a balletic grace at odds with the savage power that the best pound-for-pound professional boxer on earth exhibits in the ring. "Best pound-for-pound" is the mantra intoned with every story about Pacquiao. It sounds strange because he has never been bound by the laws of physics. In the past eight years, he has risen through six weight divisions to win just as many world championships. At the stadium, his promoters have arranged for the Filipino to make official his plan to fight Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto for a seventh title, the welterweight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning and Mythos of Manny Pacquiao | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

They stood in a smiling pose, two leaders locked in another international grip 'n' grin, pantomiming the deep ties between their countries. Later, at a press conference, it was more of the same, as if they were two new chums who had just finished a round of golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama in Japan: Public Solidarity Masks Tension | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

...displays of defiance do not appear to be nearly as large as the massive demonstrations that were staged in June to protest the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Nor are they enough to pose a direct challenge to the government, which has overwhelming control over the streets and national security. But they are having an effect far beyond the skirmishes in Tehran, pushing the Iranian government into a harder and harder line against its internal foes and into confrontation with the West. (Read about how Tehran is bracing for a new round of political protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iran, New Protests, but an Ever Harder Line | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...home of an American family in Israel who belonged to a messianic Jewish sect. The homemade bomb seriously wounded a 15-year-old boy, Ami Ortiz, severing two of his toes, damaging his hearing and threatening his promising basketball career. (Read "As Tensions Rise, Jerusalem Could Pose a New Crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accused Jewish Terrorist Jack Teitel | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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