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...accidentally go to Tampa [the Yankees spring training home] the first day of spring training? -Edwin Henriquez, New York City[Laughs] I had a ball this year. You go out and find your restaurants. It was a whole new plan for me in Vero Beach (the Dodgers spring base), even though we were there for an abbreviated period of time. I want to tell you, I went back in the Dodger archives to find restaurants. I asked Sandy Koufax and Koufax was my restaurant guide. So he found different restaurants, and as of now he hasn't picked...
...These men and women may seem to embody the English tradition of the plucky Dickensian Dodger, but it would be wrong to mistake their ingenuity for anything other than desperation, social workers say. Like those to whom the travel ads all around the airport appeal, Heathrow's homeless are also in search of escape: from debts, legal problems, family responsibilities. They often have mental health or substance abuse problems, and they often refuse help. During the day, some travel by public transport into London to beg, busk or take drugs, while others remain in the airport, sometimes scrounging food...
...Over the past year, Musharraf has shown a remarkable resilience, defying predictions that he would be either assassinated or that the multiple crises forcing his popularity downward would finish him off. But at what cost? His artful dodger tactics may have kept him in power, but in doing so he has squandered his earlier legacy of cleaning up government, building infrastructure and improving the economy. While he still imagines himself the savior of Pakistan, few Pakistanis see it that...
Some youth-sports coach is a few years away from hitting the jackpot--a roster with the offspring of major league dad NOMAR GARCIAPARRA, 33, and ultimate soccer mom MIA HAMM, 34. Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Garciaparra and retired Women's World Cup champ Hamm met at a 1998 charity event and wed in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 2003. The pair told the world (at least the reporters who hang around the Dodger locker room) that they expect twins. No word yet on gender or due date, but news of the first kid for both athletes leaves sports fans...
...DIED. JACK WILD, 53, former child actor who starred as the Artful Dodger in the 1968 film Oliver!; of mouth cancer; in London. Wild's impish charms won him an Oscar nomination for his part in the Dickens adaptation and earned him a starring role in the surreal U.S. kids' TV show H.R. Pufnstuf in 1969. But adult acting roles dried up as he struggled with alcoholism in later years. After giving up drinking in the 1980s, Wild appeared in a series of bit parts, including a supporting role in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves...