Word: wing
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Sophomore Carlin Wing advanced to the Round of 16 before falling to freshman Runa Reta of Penn, (9-0, 9-3, 9-1). Reta had also swept Wing in a previous Ivy League match...
...People in Austria love him. No, they do not love the fact that they can openly call him "stepfather of the right-wing terrorism" without him being able to sue--he already tried that once and lost. Austrians love him because they see a man who stands up for them. Haider got to where he is right now by speaking up for the average, working-class Austrian, by yelling loudest for their causes, by making use of populism in its purest form. So far, however, Haider has defended his clientele from other Austrians, such as the government and the established...
...other hand, grabbed a hefty vote among independents and Democrats. This divide will surely feed the fire already raging between the GOP candidates (and throughout the Republican party at large): Whom should the party support? Bush, the establishment candidate who has played with great success to the conservative wing of the party, or McCain, who has ignited a firestorm of support among the ranks of Democrats and independents, and who may have a better chance of beating Al Gore in November? (Gore, meanwhile, handily trounced Bill Bradley in a non-binding contest in Washington, leading to calls for Bradley...
Though Joerg Haider's resignation from the top post in the right-wing Freedom party may help lift some of the psychic baggage other member E.U. nations have toward Vienna, it doesn't spell any real change in Austria's political landscape. After all, Haider was not a minister in the coalition government of which the Freedom party is the junior member, and he remains governor of the Carinthia province. Nor has his political viability waned; immediately after she ascended to the role of party head, Freedom party cabinet member Susanne Riess-Passer said she wished Haider hadn't stepped...
...support nationwide - a popularity fueled by Austrian resentment over the E.U.'s shunning of Vienna. So while Haider may fade into the background in the short run - he said he will concentrate full-time on being governor of Carinthia - E.U. leaders will do well to note that his right-wing isolationist policies are still in high demand...