Word: beggs
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...BASEBALL Chris Begg, Uxbridge, Ont. Todd Betts, Scarborough, Ont. Stubby Clapp, Windsor, Ont. Eric Cyr, Montreal Jason Dickson, London, Ont. Rob Ducey, Toronto Jeff Francis, Vancouver Jeff Guiel, North Vancouver Mike Johnson, Edmonton Danny Klassen, Leamington...
...David Winnick, reflecting the widespread conviction that Bush owes Blair a favor in return for his loyalty during the Iraq war, caught the national mood at Prime Minister's question time: "Put your foot down, Prime Minister!" None of this noise filters back to Camp Delta, where Moazzam Begg, 35, from Birmingham, and Feroz Abbasi, 23, from south London, spend their days in a kind of timeless limbo, residing in dorms 2.4 m by 2 m, in heat that often reaches 38?C, where they're permitted as little as 30 minutes, three times per week, for exercise...
...support has been so noteworthy that they'd like to bend over backward to help." But Guantánamo is the military's turf, "and they couldn't give a rip," says one U.S. diplomat - London wasn't even given advance notice of the decision to try Abbasi and Begg in Guantánamo. Luigi Manconi, a former Italian senator who now heads the human- rights watchdog A Buon Diritto, thinks the Pentagon is in the grip of a preventive-war mentality. "It's an attitude that we must strike the haystack in the hope of hitting the needle." Legally...
...Japan, largely because in both countries many companies borrow money from banks rather than raise it through capital markets. But some economists say similarities end there. "In the Japanese banks and megabanks, there were a huge number of interlocking shareholdings, so the domino theory applied very rapidly," says Iain Begg, a professor at the London School of Economics. In addition, because the large banks have low market share, he says, "in Germany, even if one of the big banks were to go belly-up, it would not be such a threat to the financial system." As the economic slump continues...