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...Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the supreme religious leader of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, the U.I.A. includes the country's strongest Shi'ite parties, among them the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (S.C.I.R.I.) and the Dawa Party, which have close links to Iran. It also includes such wild cards as former Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi as well as representatives of Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shi'ite leader whose militias were fighting pitched battles with U.S. troops less than a year...
...more than a little jarring to find the stereotypical d?cor of the Wild West here (from longhorns mounted over the stage to wagon wheels doubling as glass racks over the bar), in one of the world's last Communist capitals?a place that was at war with the U.S. just a generation ago. Indeed, the neighboring train station was bombed to smithereens by American warplanes in 1972. For years after the war, "decadent" rock and pop music was only played behind closed doors. And as recently as 10 years ago, the few bars to be found were shut down...
...mere fraction of the retail food pie's more than $500 billion-a-year total, natural foods' estimated $16 billion in annual sales is one of the few bright spots in a generally flat industry. Spurred by the soaring popularity of such natural retailers as Whole Foods and Wild Oats and expanded natural sections at the likes of Kroger and Safeway, as well as rising concerns about obesity, natural and organic foods are growing at 5% to 10% a year, and they could claim 10% of the entire food universe within a decade. "I don't think natural and organic...
...Marlins, who had a payroll of just $51MM, 21st in the big leagues, or the 2002 Anaheim Angels, whose $62MM payroll was 16th, hear those arguments? Neither team was given a chance before the start of the season, but both went on to capture the wild card berth and then win the World Series. Baseball is more competitive now than at any point in its history, and it has been—gasp—free agency that has contributed to that parity, along with the 1965 introduction of the amateur draft and the divisional expansion of 1995. Since free...
...first time, baseball is stealing headlines from football and basketball well into January. This past weekend, the biggest story wasn’t who would advance past the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs, but where Carlos Beltran, the prize of this year’s class of free agents, would finally land. This week the entire city of New York, the largest and arguably the most sports-crazed metropolis in the world, was abuzz not because the Jets had knocked off the San Diego Chargers in a wild overtime thriller to advance to the NFL?...