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...appearing distracted. Bielsa, 46, was searching for the answer to a conundrum that would make even a brave man bury his head in the sand. In the next five days, he would have to leave one of two outstanding strikers?Gabriel Batistuta or Hernan Crespo?on the bench. The pair would make any rational list of the five best goal scorers in the world, and either man would find a place on any other World Cup team. But Bielsa's game strategy won't accommodate a pair of out-and-out strikers. There can be only...
...pitch" than his rival, and that's an understatement. There is no cooler head in a goalmouth melee than the Roma star. Batigol was the first-choice national team striker until he was injured during the qualification campaign, and he spent much of the European season on Roma's bench or sick list. But that means his legs are fresher than most, and this may be enough to compensate for the fact that, at 33, he may be a couple of years too old to be the prince of strikers...
...terror, but he's dispatching burly Undersecretary of State Richard Armitage to Islamabad next week, and his mission will be to deliver a heavy, private bruising. "If anyone can threaten to crack Musharraf in half, it's Armitage," says one State Department source. (Armitage can bench-press 160 kilos) For his part, Vajpayee has been hinting that New Delhi's military strategy has received covert approval, saying last week "world opinion is on our side but they are not saying so openly...
...Harvard men’s hockey team has lost to Boston College three times in the past year—once at Kelley Rink, once at the FleetCenter, and now once behind the bench...
...words that followed involved her. "I said, 'Well what about you and Jackie? You keep telling me that you don't like her and you're all over her'. He doesn't understand that he can be nice to her without hanging all over her." Seated on the front bench of the public gallery, two of Skakel's other brothers, Rushton and Stephen, and his sister Julie, listened closely as O'Hara continued. "Michael jumps to conclusions. I can't be friends with Tom. Just because I talk to him, it doesn't mean I like him. I really have...