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Navratilova was tough enough to withstand defection from Communist Czechoslovakia as a teenager, knowing she might never see her family again. She was gritty enough to bear the burden of being the world's most famous gay athlete, made harsher because she was also the first woman in her sport to train the way men do. Yet this stubborn competitor was always fragile, often on the edge of a "Martina meltdown." No one wins everything, but it seemed Navratilova should. Her fans still agonize over the 1989 U.S. Open, when she was two games away from beating Steffi Graf...
Simpson liked to tell interviewers that "I'm a one-woman man." It fit the wholesome image, but it didn't bear checking too closely. Nicole and O.J. played the perfect, handsome couple; even after their divorce in 1992, they were often seen together with their two children or at parties. "Like all long-term relationships, we had a few ups and downs," Simpson admitted in the extraordinary letter his friend Robert Kardashian read after O.J. fled his house. "If we had a problem, it's because I loved her so much." But he also had a message...
...most of the war criminals remain in their homelands, safe from prosecution. Nothing has been done to confront the likes of Milosevic and Karadzic or others on the U.S. list. Leaders at that level will be the most difficult to prosecute even though they bear primary responsibility for crimes committed by underlings. "Dusan Tadic is only a small part in the machinery of evil," says Ragib Hadzic, director of the Bosnia and Herzegovina War Crimes Commission office in Zenica, near Sarajevo. "Who created Dule Tadic? Who created the framework in which Tadic could exist? It is the creators...
...Quang was uninhabited until Vietnamese began to move in during the 1950s. This may explain why ancient species still survive. But now hunters' snares indiscriminately kill anything they trap, including endangered animals such as the tiger and sun bear. Human pressures have reduced the elephant population to as few as five animals, and the same fate could befall the species just uncovered. MacKinnon, disturbed by the connotations of the name slow-running deer, is worried that this animal may become extinct even before it is scientifically described...
...could condone showing the murder of three, four or five people, but when tens of thousands are being burned ... Egyptian audiences couldn't bear...