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As the series celebrates its 50th ever race on Sunday afternoon, championship defender Germany take on a new driver in Michael Ammermller while Switzerland demonstrate the growing role of women in motorsport by naming Rahel Frey as its rookie for the weekend. When she takes to the track on Friday, the 21-year-old will become the fifth female to drive an A1GP car during a race weekend. Home nation Malaysia's Alex Yoong is the most experienced driver in A1GP and, despite a tough start to the season, the 31-year-old from Kuala Lumpur remains upbeat about his team's chances at his home race. Malaysian rookie Aaron Lim, who knows the Sepang circuit well, will get his first taste of his home circuit in an A1GP car when he takes to the track this weekend. Current championship leader New Zealand will have its sights firmly set on extending its one-point advantage over South Africa while Oliver Jarvis will be aiming to keep Great Britain, currently lying third, in title contention.
The Water's Edge: Inferiority complex
The resolution did not mandate any specific action, but it offered official condemnation of the mass killings and deportations of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Support from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and dozens of co-sponsors suggested that the resolution might make it to the House floor, where it very likely would win passage. On a factual basis, the resolution stood on solid ground. Scholars and experts agree that the Ottoman Turks deported and killed anywhere from a few hundred thousand to several million ethnic Armenians during World War Igenocide may indeed be a fair description. Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA), Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, noted that, one of the problems we have diplomatically globally is that we have lost our moral authority which we used to have in great abundance.
Q&A on the Ohio Presidential Preference Primaries
Six recent polls have Republican nominee-to-be Sen. John McCain's lead ranging from 51 to 59 percent, with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's share of the vote ranging from 28 to 40 percent. It's a dramatically different story for Democrats. Like in Texas's same-day voting, a loss by Sen. Hillary Clinton could virtually end her chances. But wins in both states could put her back in the running with Sen. Barack Obama for the nomination. Q: What do those polls say about Clinton and Obama? A: Obama apparently is closing a once-wide gap between him and the former first lady. The same six polls peg the Illinois senator's support at between 38 and 44 percent. Pollsters seem to be more confident of Clinton's backing, giving her a range of between 46 and 50 percent.
Shark hunters
The commotion was the work of an in-your-face activist group called the East Side Organizing Project, with a paid staff then of just two, mobilized to battle Cleveland's mortgage "loan sharks." Years before the rest of the country was rocked by the fallout from aggressive lending, their neighborhoods were already home to the nation's highest concentration of foreclosures -- and they were fed up. ESOP's people are proudly loud and abrasive, and they've long reveled in needling people with pull. But could they get a distant behemoth like Countrywide to the table? On that morning in February 2006, ESOP executive director Mark Seifert had his doubts. For starters, he wasn't sure his group's research on Garmone even had the family's correct address. Until two evenings later, when Seifert checked his e-mail and found a message from a top public relations executive at Countrywide's California headquarters.
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