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United States women's national team forward Megan Rapinoe said the semifinal defeat to Canada in the Olympic Games on Monday is a "bitter one to swallow." The USWNT fell 1-0 through Jessie Fleming's second-half penalty and will miss out on the chance to win a gold medal. - Women's Olympics soccer bracket and fixtures "It's terrible. We just didn't have it today," Rapinoe said after the match. "Just too many errors from us again. I felt like the space was there for us to play and we just couldn't get into it, too many touches or, you know, an errant...

I WAS standing just down from the radio station 3RRR at ... in Melbourne when my phone rang.... I flipped open the batphone ... and found out that Steve Irwin was dead. I swore loudly as the moment fused, possibly forever, into memory. Something similar happened millions of times over in this country alone. Perhaps hundreds of millions of times across the world. You almost certainly remember exactly what you were doing when you heard. ... Not everyone is mourning, however. ... ... Germaine Greer pulled on her redundant fright mask and charged into print to bitchslap and rake at...

Alot of chatter is public about Hillary Clinton running in 2008. No news there. Whether she runs or not, and if she does and wins or not does not matter right now to me. However, this certain case study is very particular and a great scope of this current event can be taken if one looks back into our American political history. Let me take you to the great state of Texas, around 1915, which had been an independant Republic only half a century earlier. Two years prior to President Woodrow Wilson declaring war on Germany entering America into the...