Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
A fortnight after 14 infiltrators were killed on the Line of Control, the Army on Friday claimed to have foiled another infiltration attempt...
Ansa (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
World body to wait for probe into possible tampering
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Foil vs. Épée vs. Saber: What's the Difference? To the uninitiated, fencing can be a bit baffling. But don't let all the French words scare you away.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The Boston Red Sox honored 18 members of the U.S. Olympic team with New England ties during a brief on-field ceremony before the game against the Baltimore Orioles.
This is Bath (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Fencing Competition was fierce within each of the groups to win the coveted trophy in Bath Sword Club's Junior Competition. The winners of each of the foil groups were Jako Barker, Jacob Squire and Isobel Wilkinson Rippin, with Robert Williams ...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Paul Jones. . . 44, vice president, asset protection for The Retail
Fark.com (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
George H.W. BushApril 13, 1993: Sixteen men, in the alleged employment of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, smuggled a car bomb into Kuwait with the intent of killing Bush as he spoke at Kuwait University. The plot was foiled when Kuwaiti officials found the bomb and arrested the suspected assassins.[13] Bush had left office in January 1993. On June 26, 1993, the U.S. launched a missile attack targeting Baghdad...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Eight athletes from New York City traveled to the Beijing games dreaming of gold. They're still dreaming. Four fencers brought home silver medals, while a boxer, a sharpshooter, a judo fighter and a table-tennis pro returned empty-handed...
dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Tension is mounting here for today's Olympic Modern Pentathlon, an event I may have ignored but for a strange little coincidence.For Sydney and Athens I was working in a doctor's surgery where the senior partner's daughter was competing and in...
Pros and Cons (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Matt from Marketing and I fenced epee before we got fat, slow, weak and married. We still fenced pretty successfully (I am a former Alabama state champion) once our hair started migrating from our foreheads to our backs, in fact. Read the following exchange with that in mind: I am irked. I saw no coverage of [...]
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Lucy Ramsey, Rebecca Jenkins, and Ron Beard at Harrogate. (Editor’s note: This is the final installment of British correspondent Ali Karim’s report from the recent Harrogate Crime Writing Festival. Previous parts can be read here.) Our discussion of necrophilia and the appalling things one can do with farmyard fowl was, thankfully, interrupted by our rather unsteady arrival at Harrogate’s Hotel
SLAM Online (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The best weekend at the games yet... for me at least.
Chic Knits (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Monday Morning Mirth Like many around the world, I've been enjoying the OLYMPICS! My favorites: swimming, volleyball and... Fencing! (Even though it makes me really nervous, which, but of course, is the fun!) But what's making me more nervous than getting poked in the eye with a foil? Michael Phelps SWIMSUIT! Now ladies. I need ...
Moscow Times (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Russia's women's foil fencing team wants to see the country earn more medals.
livingbrands (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Just cos holiday shouldn't get in the way of useless information, here's a 3 week compendium addition... WEEK 31 Bees act in a similar way to serial killers. Liz Taylor has broken her back five times. Lake Baikal in Russia...
