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...Sunnis oppose the constitution, but can only defeat it if two-thirds of voters in any three provinces vote against it. Sunni leaders are confident they can get the numbers in two?Anbar and Salah ad Din?but their hopes for the third, Baghdad, rest on Muqtada al-Sadr and his two million followers in Sadr City. The A.M.S.'s al-Qubaisi says his group is already working with al-Sadr to persuade Shi'ites to vote against the constitution. The relationships forged during last week's tragedy and the goodwill generated by the Sunnis of Adhamiya could yet yield...
ANDY RODDICK, former U.S. Open champion, after his defeat in the first round of this year's event by Luxembourg's Gilles Muller...
...also did voice-over work on many of his films, most famously as Heimlich, the corpulent Teutonic caterpillar in A Bug's Life in 1998. DIED. ALEXANDER GOMELSKY, 77, diminutive, commanding basketball coach from the former Soviet Union, who built the team that gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport in 1972; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't present for his team's most famous win as he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect at the Munich games. DIED. BROTHER ROGER, 90, humble, ecumenical theologian who attracted tens...
...Cubs fan Steve Bartman was merely reviled for his role in the team's 2003 play-offs defeat, but the ball he tried to grab met all of these fates EXCEPT...
DIED. ALEXANDER GOMELSKY, 77, diminutive, commanding basketball coach from the former Soviet Union who built the team that in 1972 gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport; of cancer; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't at his team's most famous win because he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect at the Munich Games...