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...smallish firm that specializes in moving clients' money into nondollar assets like foreign stocks and bonds. Over the past couple of years, he has become a regular, hectoring presence on cable-TV business shows--on CNBC they call him "Dr. Doom." Now he has a book out, ominously titled Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse...
...invaded Iraq four years ago, Yasser Obaid Hussein's life was full of peril - but his mind was filled with hope. Night after night, his modest Baghdad apartment was shaken by the U.S. "shock and awe" bombing campaign. His pregnant wife Sheherezad was worried that a cruise missile might crash through the window. To calm her and their three children, Yasser tried to stay positive. "If we survive the bombs," he recalls saying, "we will have a wonderful new life...
...Despite claims by the International Cricket Council that it has eradicated match-fixing, suspicions persist that the practice continues. After Cronje died in a small plane crash in South Africa in 2002, some people saw the hand of South Asian organized crime at work. Former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz alleged to reporters earlier this week that one of South Asia's bookmaking mafia rings is probably behind Woolmer's murder. Sarfraz claims bookies were manipulating results, and that five members of the Pakistani squad were involved. The team's spokesman, Pervez Mir, angrily dismissed Sarfraz's allegations, telling...
...like in the Sweet Sixteen, another four days of college hoops drama that will whittle down the men's tournament to the precious Final Four? Got Georgetown in your office pool? Are you an Ohio State alum? Want the Salukis of Southern Illinois to crash the big-school party? No matter who you're pulling for this weekend, just pray for one thing...
...heavyweights, last season was historic for all the wrong reasons—the squad failed to make the NCAA Championships for the first time in nine years. But that team was young. This team is more experienced. As seen in placing sixth in the top 40 at Crash B Sprints over the winter, the team is succeeding. —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...