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...write off the Cubs slugger just yet.? Americans love sports heroes, and in this case, Sosa's cult of personality will bring him back to baseball icon status in no time. Few players are so openly enthusiastic about the game as Sosa.? In terms of popularity, he?s on par with baseball's greatest Latin hero, Roberto Clemente, and in fact may be even more popular than Clemente was in his heyday.? His friendly spirit, community activism (he lends his name to everything from health clinics in the Dominican Republic to hurricane relief) and athletic abilities are an island...
After a war, the victors always write the history, and that means they can rewrite the war's causes. Even without WMD, the mass graves discovered in Iraq prove that Saddam was a despot worthy of toppling. For many--including some in the Administration--that did not seem a sufficient reason to launch the last war. But until the missing weapons are found, it could be a long time before an American President will be able to rely on his interpretation of intelligence data to launch another war. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., Timothy J. Burger, James Carney, John...
...still prevails in the capital. "There's no doubt in my mind that crime is increasing," says Major Loy Majeed, the assistant chief of the Bayaa police station in southwest Baghdad. "Now we get reports of five, six, seven killings in a night, and all we can do is write it down." Police officers complain that patrol cars have been stolen in broad daylight and that their small-caliber pistols are no match for the heavy weapons toted by criminals. The city coroner in Baghdad says he has seen 15 to 25 corpses a day since April, most from gunshot...
...uniforms and new responsibilities. You can see their mind-set changing." But try telling that to the cops at the Bayaa police station in southwest Baghdad, a decrepit, filthy office so badly looted after the war that if local residents want to file a crime report, they have to write it down on their own paper. The dozen or so policemen there complain about their pay ($20 for the past month), their lack of firepower and patrol cars, even the look of the new uniforms. "It's like we're schoolboys," says 2nd Lieut. Khalil Kamar Rashid...
...translated into 11 more, and a film adaptation is in the works. This unexpected success has only energized the prolific McCall Smith to write yet more, including a series of mysteries set in his hometown of Edinburgh and a satirical look at German academia. The bow-tied, slightly rumpled McCall Smith knows plenty about academics - his day job is teaching medical law at the University of Edinburgh. He's one of those insufferably gifted people who can dabble in this and that and do it all well, as can be seen in the professorially cluttered study in the Victorian flat...