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...cheap shot seen round the world--French star Zinédine Zidane head-butted Marco Materazzi of Italy in the last minutes of the World Cup final. (Zidane says Materazzi insulted his mom and sister.) Most sports ban head-butting, but there have been extraordinary examples...
...bring him closer to the international community. China, along with South Korea and the U.S., have been urging Pyongyang to return to the six-party talks, the multilateral forum created to negotiate an end to North Korea's nuclear program. Pyongyang's delegates walked out of the last round of talks in November, vowing not to return unless the U.S. lifts a freeze on North Korean assets at a Macau bank. That freeze was imposed to crack down on North Korea's trafficking in drugs and counterfeit U.S. dollars...
...strong and good political instincts," said Matt Towery, Georgia Republican pollster and former state representative. "Anyone who thinks Cynthia McKinney is stupid or crazy doesn't know the term crazy like a fox." Towery noted that McKinney has not been running ads in her campaign: "She knows this go-round that if she stays quiet, keeps to herself, that she's likely to get a pass." One indication of MicKinney's chances: Towery's firm is doing no polling on the race - which it would likely do, he said, if "we thought that there was any chance of an upset...
...heard Sergeant Robert Dowdy give the order to lock and load. Jessi grabbed the slide on the side of her M-16, tugged it back and tried to chamber a round. It jammed. She had cleaned it every day, but the grit had swirled in through the truck's windows all day and clogged it again with grime. She snatched at it, trying to eject the jammed cartridge...
...South Carolina is struggling to hold its traditional importance as a key state in the first round of primaries to follow New Hampshire. Now it is competing against Alabama for that spot. While South Carolina offers a strong African-American contingent, Alabama has more union members, another key factor in the decision-making at the DNC. But even if South Carolina wins, it will suffer a loss under the new schedule, since it will now follow the new southwestern primary...