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...country was cricket's pariah, barred from international competition for refusing to play against nonwhite teams. Now, as another African nation - Zimbabwe - faces isolation ahead of cricket's quadrennial World Cup, South Africa is calling for politics to be kept out of the sport. A new boycott, says Ali Bacher, captain of the South African team during the wilderness years, "would not just be a bad day for cricket, it would be a bad day for international sport." Others argue that it would be a bad day for cricket if any World Cup matches are played in Zimbabwe, South Africa...
...subsequent chaos? The Iraqi exile community is a joke. Let Saddam's own people decide his fate. Dictators do not last forever. Instead of wasting billions of dollars to wage a stupid personal war against Iraq, President Bush should use the money to boost the U.S. economy. SYED RASHID ALI SHAH Vroomshop, the Netherlands...
...extemporaneously on television the next day and urged "patience" in letting the inspectors do their work, "to keep our people out of harm's way." Ordinary Iraqis welcomed the inspections. "Let the inspectors do their work. They will find nothing, and then maybe the sanctions will be lifted," said Ali Ahmed, who was enjoying the 'Id holiday at an amusement park. Saddam may be gritting his teeth, but his strategy is to play for time and hope that inspections ultimately give him enough of a clean bill to break up any coalition ranged against him. U.S. officials believe...
Amrozi tracked his brother to the town of Ulu Tiram in the southern Malaysian state of Johor. By then Ali Ghufron was known as Mukhlas and was a revered teacher at a madrasah. Amrozi feared his lack of piety would not please Mukhlas. So, according to I Made Mangku Pastika, the general leading the Bali investigation, Amrozi prayed five times each day and read the Koran each night. When he felt he was ready to seek his brother's blessing, he was brought into an Islamic school near the tiny settlement of Sungei Tiram. The school was Militant U. Among...
...article vastly misconstrues the Muslim religion. It portrays Islam in the way it has been characterized in America for decades—as a violent, emotion-based, patriarchal, inhumane religion. One of the clearest examples of this mischaracterization appears in Lee’s example of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is waging a public battle against what he calls “a culture of forced marriages and sexual abuse in the Netherlands’ Muslim immigrant population…practices she unapologetically label[s] ‘backward.’” This sentence is erroneous...