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...Detroit gets all the AL Central ink because of their scary lineup, but fans shouldn't forget that the Indians were one game away from the World Series last season before they blew a 3-1 lead to Boston. Can pitchers C.C. Sabathia, the AL Cy Young winner, and phenom Fausto Carmona repeat their '07 success on the mound, while Grady Sizemore and Victor Martinez try to match their sterling years at the plate...
...himself a democrat committed to market economics and black-white reconciliation, within a few years Mugabe began repressing internal opposition. Elections, in particular were accompanied by state terror. During the mid-1980s, he unleashed his army's North Korean-trained 5th Brigade on the ethnic Ndebeles of Matabeleland in central Zimbabwe, killing more than 10,000 for their support of Mugabe's rival during the liberation struggle, ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo...
...Friday, in what has become a daily occurrence, rockets or mortars slammed into the Green Zone, the heavily fortified central Baghdad sector that houses U.S. diplomats and the Iraqi government. One of the attacks hit the compound of the Sunni politician Tariq al-Hashimi, one of Iraq's vice presidents. The New York Times reported that one of his security guards had been killed. U.S. Embassy staff have been instructed to limit the time they spend outdoors and to wear helmets, flak vests and eye protection when they leave hardened structures...
...closest ally in E.U. horse trading - is down. Sure, Brown and Sarkozy are getting along just fine; time spent working together as national finance ministers at the European level has done them no harm. And Sarkozy's plans for a Mediterranean union and criticisms of the Frankfurt-based European Central Bank have irked German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But "to do anything major in Europe, France needs the support and solidarity of Germany - at times, in the face of British resistance," says Delafon. "It's fantasy to believe that the U.K. would somehow take the place or join Germany as France...
...could be heard near the eastern edge of the Green Zone Thursday morning, and rockets landed in the neighborhoods of Salhiyya, Karada, and al-Allawi. An Iraqi police source told TIME that a car bomb had also been detonated outside a hospital in Andalus Square in central Baghdad. In the district of Khadamiya, a joint American and Iraqi force fought a gun battle Thursday afternoon against armed militants. And local media reported that unidentified gunmen had kidnapped government civilian spokesman for security, Tahsin al-Sheikli, from his home in the al-Amin district of Baghdad, setting the building on fire...