Новости за 22.08.2011

James Waterson and Lauren Lynch report on the weekend’s tennis news. Andy Murray won the Western & Southern Open title after World No. 1 Novak Djokovic retired at 6-4, 3-0, and Maria Sharapova won the women’s title after she outlasted Jelena Jankovic in a marathon three hour, three set match. The win takes Sharapova up to No. 5. Andy Roddick dropped out of the top 20 for the first time since 2001, and several young guns climbed to new career highs within the top 100. Meanwhile, Canada’s No. 1... Читать дальше...

President Barack Obama

The United States has been inspired by the Syrian peoples' pursuit of a peaceful transition to democracy. They have braved ferocious brutality at the hands of their government. They have spoken with their peaceful marches, their silent shaming of the Syrian regime, and their courageous persistence in the face of brutality - day after day, week after week. The Syrian government has responded with a sustained onslaught. I strongly condemn this brutality, including the... Читать дальше...

I have spent WAY too much time playing with deviantART user generalzoi's excellent Pony Creator. Way too much time... And I am not ashamed.

Prime Minister David Cameron

I have just come from chairing a meeting of the National Security Council on the situation in Libya.

Vice President Joseph Biden

Last year, over 800,000 Chinese and 2 million Americans traveled between our countries to live, work, study and explore new places.  On a personal note, I've seen the value of these exchanges through the experiences of my niece, a young woman who learned Mandarin at Harvard and spent a year in Beijing refining her language skills and ultimately worked at our Treasury Department on U.S.-China relations.  There are tens of thousands of you like her, who are going... Читать дальше...

Serge Gainsbourg was, depending on whom you ask, a brilliant songwriter, a buffoon, an outrage, a Don Juan, or the definition of French cool. To French comic book artist Joann Sfar, growing up in a strait-laced observant family in the 1970s, Gainsbourg—born Lucien Ginsberg in 1928—was a hero. Sfar was enthralled by Gainsbourg’s outrageous antics […]