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...pair of curses. In 1919, the Red Sox decided to sell Babe Ruth, who turned out to be a pretty good ballplayer, to the New York Yankees for $125,000. They haven't won a title since, hence the Curse of the Bambino. Osaka has the Curse of Colonel Sanders. After the Tigers won their last championship in 1985, fans who resembled Tigers stars leaped one by one into the Dotonbori to resounding cheers. One problem: few Osakans were look-alikes for the team's 1.85 m, 95 kg American star Randy Bass. So they purloined a statue of portly...
...warned all the Palestinian groups that Israel would try to strike their offices in Beirut. Some Israeli ministers worry the air strike against Syria made Israel look aggressive and risks opening a conflict across the northern border. In a concrete-lined trench at the Narkis post above Metula, Lieut. Colonel Lior screws up his eyes against the hot, dry wind that sweeps down from the Syrian desert and watches for the next move in that battle. A deputy brigade commander on the border, Lior points out the nearby farmhouses from which Hizballah operatives monitor Israeli patrols. His soldiers have been...
...Colonel Ali Jaffar Hussan al-Duri, a Republican Guard armored-corps commander who fought in the Iran-Iraq war and in both Gulf Wars, remembers the time when Iraq's Chemical Corps was fear inspiring. "We were much better at it than the Iranians," he says, who are thought to have suffered as many as 80,000 casualties in chemical attacks. But after Gulf War I, Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamal, who headed the MIC, took the most talented Chemical Corps officers with him, according to Hussan. After that, he claims, the unit became a joke. "It should...
...about failures or production levels and meanwhile siphoning money from projects. "He would tell the President he had invented a new missile for Stealth bombers but hadn't. So Saddam would say, 'Make 20 missiles.' He would make one and put the rest in his pocket," says the captain. Colonel Hussan al-Duri, who spent several years in the 1990s as an air-defense inspector, saw similar cons. "Some projects were just stealing money," he says. A scientist or officer would say he needed $10 million to build a special weapon. "They would produce great reports, but there was never...
...Kind Hearts and Coronets) and the impotent men of responsibility in David Lean's epics. In 1962's Lawrence of Arabia, Guinness's sly Prince Feisal watches from the sidelines, hoping to take advantage of Lawrence's heroism. In The Bridge on the River Kwai, his Colonel Nicholson becomes so obsessed with British pride he ends up a puppet of his Japanese captors. Even from those sidelines, Guinness could loom over a film. In Doctor Zhivago, his burnt-out, hollow face is unforgettably marked by the horrors of war. His Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations shines with the exuberance...