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Major League Baseball will soon name an all-time Latino Legends Team based on fan balloting. One of the game's greatest Latino players, Panamanian-born batting champ ROD CAREW, was a TIME cover subject...
...Performance of the week In 1998, a book titled Fifty Reasons Why Anwar Ibrahim Cannot Become Prime Minister accused Malaysia's then-deputy chief of everything from corruption to adultery. Later that year, Anwar found himself the subject of a police investigation, which led to his sacking and six years in prison for corruption (a sodomy conviction was overturned last year). Last week a court awarded Anwar $1.2 million in libel damages against the book's author, Khalid Jafri, leading a jubilant Anwar to declare that he has been "completely vindicated." Numbers 18,000 Number of hand-pulled rickshaws...
...artist staged an elaborate ceremony at NAK, where The Gift was dismantled and sawn into portions for the two dozen collectors, called Twodo. The bizarre event, presided over by an anthropologist from Cambridge and mimicking the gifting rituals of islands like Roti, brought Stevenson even closer to his subject. Ultimately he saw Fairweather, who was forced to dig ditches in Devon after being deported from Roti, as "a very exemplary case history" of the struggling artist who must barter to survive...
...might not have resulted in the death penalty. The Kavieng case was just one example. "The cold war considerations had imposed themselves, and the new Menzies government decided that it needed to accept Japan as an ally,'' says historian Michael Carrel, who recently completed a Ph.D. thesis on the subject...
...number of romance novels featuring handsome desert nomads, provided a helpful graph documenting their rise. Yin Shui Si Yuan dismissed these romance novels as "incredibly ill-informed, orientalist, romantic fantasies involving oil sheikhs." Political Animal's Kevin Drum and Abu Aardvark's Marc Lynch have found the subject an amusing distraction from the August doldrums...