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...impress. Ronaldinho and Emerson cannot guarantee ball possession, and Roberto Carlos treats his left back position as a forwarding address. Then again, this is Brazil we're talking about, and the team is in one of the Cup's weakest groups. Its opponents?Turkey, China and Costa Rica?pose little danger. China is here on a pass?it didn't have to play South Korea or Japan to qualify. If China possesses a secret weapon it's enigmatic coach Bora Milutinovic, who in the past has helped to qualify Costa Rica, Mexico, Nigeria and the U.S. for the finals...
...when Saddam invited Mohammed Sobhi, an Egyptian actor performing in Baghdad last year, to one of his palaces, security seemed almost nonchalant. Sobhi and his troupe were ushered inside with nary a frisk. Saddam chatted easily, about Iraqi poetry, about the Palestinian problem. He allowed each guest to pose for a picture with him. The notorious dictator struck his Egyptian visitors as steady, smiling, relaxed, cheerful, sensitive, amiable, hospitable. He sounded confident that he had weathered a storm. "Saddam said every Iraqi feels inside him that he is a winner, with his pride intact," recalls Sobhi. "Saddam said...
Popular-price speakers will attend faculty luncheons or receptions, sign autographs and pose for photographs...
TIME: Greedy, deceitful managers like those at Enron pose a risk for buy-and-hold investors. How do you defend against dishonesty...
Most people are opposed to the idea of first-cousin marriage simply because of some vague and ignorant fear of genetic deformities. The National Society of Genetic Counselors recently released findings to suggest that, contrary to popular belief, first-cousin marriages pose only a minimal health risk. Those who oppose the marriages often cite the 1.7 to 2.8 percent increase in the risk that cousin-parents have of passing a genetic disease on to their children as compared to the initial risk level of about 3 or 4 percent in marriages between complete strangers. But the risk of genetic disease...