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Winners & Losers

Winners McCain: No one can trump this guy on torture. Not even the president. Sharapova: Highest-earning tennis player in the world proves she’s more than the next Kournikova. Drinking: Go ahead. You’ll earn more.  Ali Larijani: Iran’s nuclear negotiator wins over the Europeans. It’s a start, but the clock is ticking. Borat: Contrary to reports, ...

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Winners

Winners

McCain: No one can trump this guy on torture. Not even the president.

Sharapova: Highest-earning tennis player in the world proves she’s more than the next Kournikova.

Drinking: Go ahead. You’ll earn more. 

Ali Larijani: Iran’s nuclear negotiator wins over the Europeans. It’s a start, but the clock is ticking.

Borat: Contrary to reports, he won’t be on the agenda at any U.S.-Kazakhstan summit. But all that free publicity is worth its weight in gold. Wawawiwa.

Losers

UNESCO: Incredibly, the UN cultural body gives Uzbek President Islam Karimov an award, and it isn’t for authorizing massacres.  

Interfaith dialogue: Pope Benedict’s speech suggesting Islam might incubate violence sparks off…violence.

Colombian gang members: Will a sex ban end the violence?

U.S. Interior Department: Its inspector general: “Simply stated, short of a crime, anything

goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior.”

Stingrays: Never upset Australians. Dead stingrays with their tails cut off are washing up on Australian beaches. 

Carolyn O'Hara is a senior editor at Foreign Policy.

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