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...opened in Lisbon of seven people charged in relation to an alleged child sex ring in state-run children's homes. Revelations by a whistleblower in September 2002 outraged the nation when it emerged that reports of abuse spanning decades were ignored by authorities. Fair Play ZIMBABWE The England cricket team arrived in Harare for a 10-day tour after authorities - in a surprise turnaround - lifted a ban on 13 British journalists. The England cricketers had delayed traveling to the country because of the ban. No Bargaining AFGHANISTAN Officials denied the government had made a deal to secure the release...
...game as gentlemanly as cricket, yelling "cheat" is not done lightly. Imagine the shock, therefore, when cricket's ruling council formally announced last week that almost every bowler in the history of the game had played fast and loose with the rules...
...Happily for Murali, in a judgment in Dubai last week, the International Cricket Council (ICC) declared that analysis of video footage showed that "99%" of all bowlers, including many cricket greats, bent their arms excessively. The investigating committee proposed that the ICC loosen the rules and allow arms to be bent up to 15 degrees. A relieved Murali told TIME: "Cricket should be a gentleman's game. Now I hope it can be again...
...linen-closet intimacy of his earlier releases, still make you feel like your seat is never too far from the stage. On the other end of the spectrum, songs like “Twilight,” painted over “Sun King”-like cricket-sounds, and “The Last Hour” work like red-pencil corrections to secret diary entries: ”I’ve been thinking of the things that I missed / Situations that I passed up for this /... / Make it over” he whisper-sings in the latter...
...pellucid sunlight that Charles would soon lose sight of. Those vignettes--his brother drowning as Charles stands paralyzed, his mother sobbing heedlessly on the boy's coffin--have an indelible poignancy. On one radiant afternoon, Charles, now nearly blinded by glaucoma, listens to and memorizes the music of a cricket, a clopping horse and, breathing softly nearby, his mother. "I hear you too, Mama," the child says...