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...there is no better fun than seeing the favorite beaten. Watching the sublime Tiger Woods struggling against the elements at Muirfield fed the need among the rest of us to know that nobody's perfect. That is why the Formula One season has become a bit of a bore. The Ferraris have been so strong that unless the two red cars take each other out on the first corner, no one else has a chance of catching them. Having wrapped up his fifth drivers' championship in the French Grand Prix at the end of July, Michael Schumacher had a nice...
...party benefited from an alleged ransom paid to free French hostages in Lebanon in 1988. ESTONIA SS Monument Authorities in the city of Parnu removed a monument honoring Estonians who fought alongside the Nazis in World War II. The monument showed a man in an Estonian SS uniform and bore a dedication to servicemen in what it called their efforts to liberate the homeland. The removal took place after the city blocked the unveiling of the monument and ordered a change in the inscription. SPACE The End Is-Kind of-Nigh Maybe Astronomers set a new date-and time...
Person of the Week In the end, the 21-year-old kid with the close-cropped hair bore little resemblance to the wild-eyed, unkempt American Taliban captured by U.S. forces in Qala-i-Jangi, Afghanistan. JOHN WALKER LINDH pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy-the Taliban-and got 20 years in prison, killing what might have been the first major trial in the war on terror...
...guitar player usually, and I come up with melody and lyrics," explains Lavigne. Branch accepted help from other songwriters on about half the songs on The Spirit Room. Carlton wrote all the originals on her album solo and worked with Fair on arrangements. Whether or not their choruses ever bore into the public's brain like that of Oops!...I Did It Again, the Authentics may grow on kids just because teen pop's trademark disrobing has grown tired. "The biggest thing I hear a lot from kids who come to my shows is, 'Oh, it's so nice...
...Like the Brazilians, Germany had a football heritage to live up to. But the team it fielded on Sunday bore scant resemblance to its imaginative sides of the past. "Der Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer, who had participated in German World Cup victories as both player and manager, offered this unenthusiastic analysis of coach Rudi VOller's squad during the tournament: "We don't have any bad players, but at the same time there aren't any truly good ones either." German football at World Cup 2002 was not about being pretty or polished; it was about being robotically, determinedly pragmatic. "There...