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...seen as one of cricket's most respected sons: captain of South Africa, God-fearing and charming. Then Hansie Cronje's dirty secret was exposed: for years he'd been making clandestine deals with bookmakers. At first he denied all. But as the evidence mounted he confessed, blaming the devil and his own "unfortunate love of money." Last June, in Cape Town, he wept on the stand at the King Commission of Inquiry into match-fixing. Months later, he was kicked out of cricket for life...
...jumbled gravestones crammed into a dusty playground corner look forlorn in the weak midwinter sun. The boisterous calls of children playing cricket nearby remove all sense of solemnity. It is not an impressive spot for dead heroes. But this Srinagar burial plot, known as the Martyrs Graveyard, is the final resting place for many of the victims of violent Kashmir, the battleground of one of the world's most bitter disputes?the one between India and Pakistan...
...that. Two members of his own cabinet on Saturday upbraided him for the negotiations, saying doing this just before the election is unsavory. Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami retorted that while they were negotiating, Barak's team wouldn't sign anything. There's concern that it's not cricket to make a new deal and then lose the election and hand a poisoned chalice to Sharon. And, of course, Barak's party may end up in a unity government with Sharon...
From then on it was time for a first-rate showcase of Maas' signature "wet, hard funk," a genre-defying dance floor assault whose defining characteristic is its ability to create mass gyration on the dance floor. The basic tools-sirens, cricket chirps, claps and Maas' favorite sound effect, the synthesizer growl were not especially deft or inventive in themselves, but the insistent bass and driving beats kept the crowd eager for more. The stabs at drama, such as cutting the strobes to frame Maas between two columns of red light, were simple at best, but enthralling nonetheless...
Here in South Africa, we consider Australia our archrival in most things, particularly rugby union and cricket. For two weeks, I watched the Olympics spectacle on television [THE SUMMER OLYMPICS, Oct. 9], and now that they are over, I am eager to tell the Australians how proud I am of what they have done. CLIFF CARD Johannesburg...