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...signed by the Dodgers in February and was tied for third in wins (11) in the National League through June; but it's the daily success of Ichiro?the first Japanese-born position player to make it in America?that has erased the inferiority complex of his ballplaying countrymen. "Now we feel if you're a good player in Japan, you can be a good player anywhere," says Kazuo Matsui, who's still mulling over whether he wants to be posted after this, his eighth season. "It pushes me even more, having that freedom...
...early days is the hope. The settlers' idea was to create nothing less than a mini-state for Anglo-Indians. Their leader: Ernest McCluskie, a Scot-Indian who had felt personally the sting of discrimination from both the British and from Indians who resented that their mixed-race countrymen were eligible for better jobs. As a wealthy trader, McCluskie was in a position to do something about it. So in 1932, he bought 4,000 hectares of jungle in the hills of eastern India, part of what is now the state of Jharkhand. At his beckoning, 350 mixed-race families...
...after he moved to a $17.5 million Park Avenue apartment and poked a U.S. flag pin in his lapel. In December, when Messier announced yet another U.S. acquisition and pronounced "the French cultural exception" dead, his country's media and political establishment turned against him. Messier further alienated his countrymen by publicly firing Pierre Lescure, long-time president of subsidiary Canal Plus, just weeks after giving Lescure two years to reverse the pay TV station's losses. The move provoked open rebellion by the channel's staff and increasing suspicion that Messier was preparing austerity measures to include slashing Canal...
...neatly wrongfoots him, and unleashes a scorching shot, nearly ripping a hole in the back of the net. It's his third goal in 10 minutes?a rapid-fire hat trick. He slips off his lime-green shirt and runs, roaring, to strike a pose in front of his countrymen. Carefully, almost reverently, he places the shirt on the turf like an offering to the faithful. His fans bang bongos and clank cymbals and bellow right back. But hold on?aren't Nigeria's Super Eagles out of the World Cup, first-round casualties, winging their way back to Africa...
...account, is of a former street hoodlum desperate to join a new gang - and being kept at arm's length. An outsider taught to build a bomb (what's not to like, for al-Qaeda, about a U.S. passport holder asking to be taught how to kill his countrymen?) but not necessarily integrated into the organization he was desperate to join. The fact that the authorities arrested Padilla immediately on his arrival in Chicago rather than following him around in the hope that he would reveal al-Qaeda operatives already on U.S. soil says volumes about how little may have...