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...supposed to be a triumphant week for Asif Ali Zardari. Inaugurated as Pakistan's new President on Saturday, the sharp-suited, silver-tongued and often controversial widower of Benazir Bhutto was then to fly to New York City to make his debut on the world stage by addressing the United Nations General Assembly. Instead, he finds himself struggling to maintain his political footing in the face of contending pressures that threaten to knock him off balance...
...most Chinese media were celebrating Beijing's Olympics successes, a magazine named Southern Window - a highbrow biweekly with a circulation of 500,000 - broke from the pack. On the cover of the magazine's Aug. 11 issue, there is no photograph of the sparkling Bird's Nest stadium, no triumphant Chinese athlete fondling one of the country's 51 gold medals. Instead, there is an illustration of law textbooks and a teacher with a wooden pointer giving instruction to a businessman and a government official. The cover line: "Rule of Law Starts with Limitation of Power." Sounds boring? In China...
...triumphant day for U.S. women's sports at the Olympics, it's downright cruel that softball, the Teflon team that was set for one last coronation, fell short. The rainy morning started with a win on wet sand, as Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor clinched gold in beach volleyball, keeping their ludicrous 108-game winning streak safe. Later, the U.S. women's soccer team, which played the tournament without its best player, Abby Wambach, shocked Brazil in the gold medal game, a 1-0 overtime thriller. Brazil had spanked the U.S., 4-0, at last year's World...
...Although the issue's success coincided with Obama's recent triumphant swing through Europe, Sozzani pulled the trigger on the idea back on Super Tuesday. Visiting the U.S. that first week of February, she says she experienced up close the enthusiasm generated by the first viable African-American candidate for the White House. "It's a sign," she recalls thinking to herself. "It's the moment...
...impossibly good news: ''We are donating a heart to the baby,'' she declared. The cameras closed in on Jesse's stunned parents as they broke into cries of joy, smiles and tears. The audience went wild. For a moment it seemed that television itself had brought about this triumphant turn of events. And in a way, it had. A week earlier the case of Baby Jesse had become a cause celebre, when officials at Loma Linda University Medical Center, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, had refused to consider the infant as a candidate for transplant. The hospital had apparently...