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...answer for now seems to be no. Though there was talk of canceling the second season of the Premier League, the IPL looks set to start on April 10 per the original schedule. Security has been beefed up. Players - the teams feature the best in the world from Australia and South Africa to Sri Lanka and the West Indies - will be restricted to the ground and their hotels. Fans will have their bags checked more thoroughly. But the game will go on. "I think we don't have much of [a] choice in this," says Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan...
...want to pull out, franchisees will understand," he says, "But I believe players will come." Rajaraman points out that last year's IPL match in Jaipur between the Rajasthan Royals, led by Australian bowling great Shane Warne, and the Bangalore Royal Challengers with players from South Africa, England and Australia, went ahead despite a deadly terror attack in the city just days before. "At one level, it's a game people love and will do anything for," Rajaraman says. "At another, there is greater faith in India than there is in Pakistan...
...Pakistan is indeed in much worse shape. The Sri Lankan team was touring there because India had called off its scheduled tour after the Mumbai attacks, which the Indian government blames on Pakistan-based militants. Teams like Australia and England have refused to play there, too, forcing Pakistan to consider playing all its "home" games in Dubai...
...economic interests abroad. The Australian government is reviewing the proposed $19.5 billion investment from Chinalco - China's huge state-owned aluminum company - in Rio Tinto, the world's second largest mining company, as well as a couple of other, smaller deals in the mining sector. But opposition in Australia has been increasing. There are TV ads now running that in effect say, "China will not allow us to buy one of their mines, so why should they be allowed to buy ours?" (See pictures of Australia rescuing its koalas...
...amazed at the paucity of coverage on the bushfires in Victoria. This was Australia's greatest peacetime disaster - an experience of absolute horror on a massive scale - and you gave it one page, of which only half was text. Coverage of Australia in the U.S. media is negligible and TIME is no exception. As a subscriber for over half a century, I find this very disappointing. Michael Wilson, Pymble, Australia...