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...Angels, a young, happy-to-be-here team, are putting up a "Barry Who?" front, beginning with the littlest Angel, Rodriguez. But it's clear that Bonds bestrides the series and the game as the Golden Gate Bridge does San Francisco Bay. This is his World Series. That is, assuming the Angels will play ball. "There are situations where we will pitch to Barry Bonds, and situations where we won't," says Angels manager Mike Scioscia. Translation: not a chance, if they can avoid it. --With reporting by Dan Cray/Anaheim
...DIED. STEPHEN AMBROSE, 66, populist historian whose best-selling books, including 1992's Band of Brothers and 1994's D-Day, about the courage of citizen soldiers in World War II, drew a broad audience of readers to American history; of lung cancer; in Bay St. Louis, Miss. As a child in Whitewater, Wis., Ambrose was deeply impressed by returning veterans--the start of the unabashed hero worship later reflected in his books. A history teacher for much of his life, Ambrose was asked by Dwight Eisenhower in 1963 to write the President-general's biography. It wasn't until...
...Close. He was actually in Guant?namo Bay, Cuba, as a guest of the U.S. military. How did Khan, a homeopathic doctor who (according to his family) had never picked up a gun, find himself 9,600 kilometers from home locked inside a razor-wired stockade? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has described Guant?namo's prisoners as "hard-core, well-trained terrorists." But according to his family and friends, Khan was nothing more than a fool in love, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...Like all prisoners, Khan was shorn of his beard, stripped, forced into a bright orange jumpsuit, clapped into earmuffs so he couldn't hear and black goggles that obscured his eyesight. In chains, he was led onto a plane for the longest, strangest trip of his life?to Guant?namo Bay...
...error occurred while processing this directive]DIED. STEPHEN AMBROSE, 66, best-selling American historian whose books fed a popular appetite for stories of Allied valor in World War II; in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The former University of Wisconsin football star made his name in the academic world with multi-volume biographies of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon before crashing the bestseller charts in 1992 with Band of Brothers, the first in a string of hugely successful patriotic histories. Ambrose, whose reputation was tarnished earlier this year by the discovery of plagiarized passages in several of his books, also served...