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...DIED. GOPAL VINAYAK GODSE, 86, sole survivor of the group of five men who plotted the 1948 assassination of Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi; in Pune, India. Godse served 16 years in prison for his role in the conspiracy; his brother Nathuram, who shot Gandhi, was executed in 1949. In his old age Godse showed no remorse for the murder of the pacifist leader, whom he believed had betrayed India by encouraging Hindus to coexist peacefully with Pakistan. Gandhi "had to be eliminated to save the country from further damage," Godse told the Hindustan Times...
...President Bush's pillars of homeland security--the USA Patriot Act. The legislation, passed weeks after Sept. 11 and set to expire at the end of the month, gives law enforcement broad authority to search everything from Internet usage to credit-card records--the kind of Big Brother stuff that fires up even the most lackadaisical lefties. And so, despite Republicans' granting some key civil-liberties protections last week, top Democratic aides tell TIME that minority whip Dick Durbin of Illinois plans to lead a filibuster this week. These sources say that with a handful of conservative Republicans--including...
...brother reckons that the best piece of coaching he ever received came from an affable bloke called Bill Wawn, who in the early 1980s in Sydney looked after a team of useful teenaged cricketers. Padded up and nervous one Saturday afternoon, my brother and his batting partner were about to head out to the middle to chase a challenging target when Bill sauntered over. "All right, boys, no silly buggers," he said. "But if the ball's there to be hit, lay the wood into it." And that was it. Short. Simple. Kind of funny in a way that...
...brother never advanced much beyond park cricket and was never exposed to any famed coach, one might ask what value should be attached to his rating of Bill's advice. Fair point. But as someone who wrote about sport full-time for 11 years and has heard many of Australia's most celebrated coaches address their players - in modes both Churchillian and fatherly - I can still see the magic in Bill's words. It's easy to talk yourself numb about the complexities of coaching in the professional era. And sure, at the top of any sport there...
...just execute us and get this over with?" BARAZAN IBRAHIM, Saddam Hussein's half-brother, questioning the validity of the former Iraqi leader's trial...