Clinton's victory dominated coverage on Israeli radio, Internet and television, with most media noting the historic moment in American politics.
Union officials also claimed a victory in health coverage, saying that management had altered its stance and acknowledged the union's right to bargain collectively about changes in the plan.
Phelps's phenomenal victories crowded out coverage of other people.
Even without President Barack Obama's health care overhaul victory last month, extending insurance coverage and access to treatment to an additional 32 million Americans over the next 10 years, top U.S. business schools have increasingly seen health care management as a major challenge and opportunity.
As viewers watched Russian state TV coverage of Victory Day on 9 May, their eyes will have been drawn to one face in particular among the crowds carrying photographs of family members who took part in the struggle against Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945.
In November, as he was about to surpass Bob Knight's record for career victories, ESPN's fawning coverage would have you believe he cured cancer at halftime of the 2010 Carolina game and brokered Middle East peace during a TV timeout.
Mr Basescu's victory against largely hostile news coverage was impressive.
Following their victory, which received widespread media coverage, a wave of strikes engulfed the textile sector, with workers in other mills demanding the same gains as those of Mahalla.
While Mr. Romney dominated the day-after-Iowa news coverage with his victory lap here, Mr. Santorum and his staff were slowly making the 1,400-mile 1,400-mileom Des Moines in a King Air propeller plane that did not deliver them here until suppertime, too late to make a star turn on the evening news.
Advisers to Mrs. Clinton have long worried that many independent voters, conservative Democrats, and liberal and female Republicans have bad memories of her fierce advocacy on health care in 1993-94, when she lambasted her opponents and seemed, at times, disdainful of anything short of universal coverage and total victory.
