Word: arsenals
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...fair bet. With 14 major titles in as many seasons with the club, Ferguson and his team looked set for one or two more this time out. Instead, United lost in the semifinal of the European Championship and was edged out of the Premier League championship by an ascendant Arsenal who, days after winning the F.A. Cup, clinched the title by beating Ferguson's stellar team on their own turf at Old Trafford. The winning smile of Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was that of a man who knew he'd outfought, outthought and outstared soccer's meanest, smartest...
...internal dissent that plagued their African Nations Cup performance. And, in a country that seems to suffer one political or social trauma after another, last week the team had to cope with the death of Sports Minister Ishaya Mark Aku in a plane crash. Despite the likes of Arsenal's Nwankowo Kanu and Chelsea's Celestine Babayaro, the Super Eagles also look poised to crash. Still, no one can chance taking this team lightly: should Argentina choose to play rough when the two meet on June 2, it could well regret it. The stretcher bearers should be at the ready...
...that sparked the Kargil War, named for the region where it was fought. Both sides had tested nukes a few months earlier; last week in Washington, Bruce Riedel, senior director at the National Security Council, revealed that the Pakistani army, without informing its own government, had mobilized its nuclear arsenal at the height of the conflict. Former U.S. President Clinton persuaded then-Pakistani Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif to withdraw his forces, ending what appears to be one of the closest brushes with nuclear war since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis...
...establishing compliance. It doesn't require any warheads to be dismantled or destroyed, meaning they can and will be stored for possible use in the future. U.S. insistence on this point was particularly troubling to the Russians, but Putin, who can't afford to maintain a large strategic arsenal in any case, acceded to it in the end. "There's no actual reduction," complains Jim Steinberg, a top foreign- policy adviser to Clinton. "It's just an agreement on the deployment of forces. You can't even call it an arms-control treaty...
...daily mechanics of The Red Line have remained constant. The team participates in a club season in the fall and trains during the winter to prepare for the main collegiate spring season. Three times a week the team works on its man-to-man and zone defenses, improves its arsenal of forehead and backhand throws and runs long distances and stadiums to increase its endurance. This intensity is required as a player might run from eight to 10 miles during a day of tournament play. But endurance alone is not sufficient for a successful ultimate team...