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He was right when it counted most. Brandt was a German who opposed Hitler from the very beginning, a socialist who rejected communism and a West Berliner who refused to adopt neutrality, a tempting compromise in the West’s most vulnerable outpost. His Ostpolitik was deplored by some Germans. They complained that his rapprochement with East Germany and its Soviet sponsors ratified the division of their country and the loss of its lands in the east after World War II....

Ma’s showmanship did little to dispel Beijing’s reputation as the biggest state sponsor of doping since East German officials gave steroids to athletes without telling them. Still, Chinese officials say they are determined to clean up their country’s image. What’s at stake: national glory at the upcoming Sydney Olympics and–more important–Beijing’s bid to host the 2008 Games. Chinese officials say doping is out. Last week 27 athletes were dropped from China’s Olympic delegation for allegedly taking erythropoietin, or EPO, a banned substance used to boost performance in endurance sports....

The “stuff” Mayor Taylor is talking about is a pain Littleton knows all too well. Eight years ago today—on the morning of April 20, 1999—the world watched in horror as Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, students at the nearby Columbine High School, unleashed a flurry of violence as random and incalculable as the Virginia Tech massacre this week. Twelve students and a teacher were killed. Twenty-four were wounded. For the residents of Littleton, a tight-knit Denver suburb of 42,000 that bore the brunt of that day’s carnage, the gunfire left an awful legacy that resonates to this day....

Heart disease kills more Americans than all other causes of death combined. Surgical advances have helped to keep many patients alive, and drugs–with their unpleasant side effects–can actually heal clogged arteries. But until this week, there has been no published scientific evidence to confirm the belief that one could reverse heart disease strictly through changes in lifestyle. The current edition of the British medical journal, The Lancet, contains the revolutionary results of a yearlong experiment conducted by Ornish and his colleagues–the program that opened Royall’s artery....

But it may be that Snoop’s songs, which often depict a world of gun-toting drama, describe a life he has not yet left behind. As he presented the MTV award for best rhythm & blues video, detectives waited outside to arrest him on charges of first-degree murder. Snoop, born Calvin Broadus, avoided arrest at the awards event, but later that evening he turned himself over to the cops. According to police, Broadus was present on Aug....

The uprising included several Special Operations officers who had earned decorations in the three-decade war against Muslim rebels in the south. The mutinous troops issued a statement complaining of favoritism and corruption. “We demand the resignation of our leaders in the present regime,” it said. “We are willing to sacrifice our lives today to pursue a program not tainted with politicking.” Armed Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Daniel Lucero said that the siege was not seen as a threat to power, and that the Manila government hoped for a peaceful resolution....

Such a shift would mean rethinking the broadside confrontational approach gaining traction in both the White House and Congress, while discerning how to get the best outcomes for what was considered the world’s most important bilateral relationship by President Donald Trump’s predecessor. Whereas President Barack Obama first turned the United States’ strategic sights toward China, Trump has sought to outright challenge Beijing and its rise. But the administration’s strategy so far has been a “mixed bag” at best, Douglas Barry, senior director of communications and publications at the U....

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CARTOONSAnime Mania If you’re a fan of that always wild, often racy form of Japanese animation called anime, fire up your Web browser. Central Park Media (www.centralparkmedia.com), one of the largest U.S. distributors of Japanese videos and comic books, is teaming up with broadcast.com to show 125 anime programs on the Web. Each clip will be viewable at multiple speeds, so if you have access to a T-1 line or a cable modem, you’ll be able to see full-screen, full-motion images....

RELATED: A Plague Tale: Requiem - How To Solve The Bell Symbol Puzzle How To Get The Perfect Shot Trophy In A Plague Tale: Requiem To get the Perfect Shot Trophy in A Plague Tale: Requiem, players must sink all the pine cones while Amicia is playing with Hugo. Later on, Tonin will join the sibling and play with them and starts to throw rocks. Keep in mind that the first pine cone will always sink on its own....

Ronaldo makes Champions League history Into the bargain Zinedine Zidane has bettered every Real Madrid coach since 1958. Luis Carniglia equalled the feats of Jose Villalonga a year previous in winning a league and European Cup double. No Madrid coach since then could do it until now. And it took 27 years for a team to match the feat of Arrigo Sacchi’s AC Milan side. This Real Madrid have no comparison in the modern era....

(1) To own a piece of other countries’ good fortune. Right now, economic growth in Australia and parts of Europe, Asia and Latin America is faster than growth in the United States. (2) To invest in other currencies. When the dollar declines, as it has recently, foreign securities are especially strong. Adjusted for dollar changes, five foreign markets bested ours during the 1980s: those of Japan, Holland, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, in that order....

A Jony Ive and Marc Newson-designed Leica The unit is listed on the official Leica Photographica Auction website as being in “B+” condition. Ive and Newson apparently built hundreds of prototype parts for the camera before eventuating getting to this particular prototype as the final development step. The prototype unit does resemble Ive’s minimalist design style from his Apple days, including an aluminum body along with a highly reflective surface. The lot is estimated to raise between 200,000 euro ($235,000) and 250,000 euro ($295,000) in bidding....

The act, authored by Rep. Charles Canady, Republican of Florida, would extend the law’s protections–would protect the right to life–to infants who survive abortions. Such babies sometimes are born as a result of abortions sought because the babies have (or sometimes are mistakenly thought to have) defects like Down syndrome or spina bifida. The House committee that passed Canady’s bill 22 to 1 heard heart-rending testimony about born-alive babies being discarded alive into soiled hospital linen or left on a baby scale, unattended, without warmth or nourishment, their hearts beating and limbs moving, until they died....

The Gennifer Flowers story had broken just a month before the New Hampshire primary, and we knew we had one chance to clear up the questions. So we were going with the biggest possible audience–“60 Minutes” just after the Washington Redskins vs. Buffalo Bills game. During one break, a light stand fell on Hillary’s head while executive producer Don Hewitt kept pressing the governor to just say yes or no–had he committed adultery?...

Last week Beane got some more news to worry about. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine reported that women who took estrogen, with or without the female hormone progesterone, had a 30 to 40 percent higher risk of breast cancer than those who did not take any hormone treatments. The results were not as simple as they seemed. Women who took hormones for less than five years – or who had stopped taking them for two years – showed no increase in breast cancer, according to Graham A....

A decade ago, complaints like Kimzey’s would have been dismissed with a winked understanding that “boys will be boys.” But that was before Anita Hill raised the nation’s consciousness about sexual harassment. Even more important were some fundamental changes in federal law that made it easier to sue. In the debate that followed Hill’s 1991 testimony during Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings, women learned about the little-known legal concept of a “hostile environment”–a job situation made untenable by a co-worker’s repeated, sexually inappropriate behavior....

Top of the table after 14 games, with 34 points. If you predicted that at the start of the season you’d be lying. Today’s article is an individual review of each player involved this season, giving you my opinion into players individual performances and their contribution to the team for the first third of the season. Wojciech Szczesny Apps – 22 Clean Sheets – 10Performance of the season – Fulham (A)...