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...Rugby's decline can be traced to the advent of professionalism in the mid-1990s. The rugby pitch has always been crowded, with 30 players and almost no space between the teams. That there was once a stronger link between enterprising attack and tries was largely due to the fact that the amateur players of yesteryear would tire to an extent that today's pros - bigger, faster, fitter - don't. Imagine rugby league adding two extra players to each side and changing the 10-m rule to a 0-m rule. The resultant stalemate would be a guide to what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Final Whistle | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...cough syrup. Among the nationally recognized stars of the genre was Big Moe, known for fusing spoken verse, singing and complex melodies. The University of Houston graduate--whose 2002 album, Purple World, reached No. 3 on Billboard's hip-hop charts--was 33 and apparently died of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 29, 2007 | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...Buddhist monks and the arrests of thousands. Prime Minister General Soe Win first impressed his bosses in 1988 when he brutally quashed an uprising at Rangoon University by ordering troops to open fire on protesters. He later earned the moniker "Butcher of Depayin" for masterminding a bloody 2003 attack on democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters. He was 59 and had leukemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 29, 2007 | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...with his family in the northern city of Mosul. In June 2004, however, Hashem was taken into custody by the Iraqi government and put on trial for his role in the Anfal, Saddam's 1988 crackdown on Kurdish rebels that left thousands dead and included the notorious chemical-weapons attack on the town of Halabja. In June 2007, Hashem was sentenced to death, along with Ali Hassan Majid, known as "Chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saved from the Noose--for Now | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

Boston College’s Katie Quaglia continued the Eagle attack as she shot a ball from the middle that sailed into the upper right corner of the net, giving Boston College the early 1-0 lead halfway into the first period...

Author: By Vanda R. Gyuris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Dashed By Late BC Push | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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