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...shabby, multiethnic west London shopping mall, robed men sit placidly at a stall offering Islamist pamphlets and videos on Shari'a law or jihad in Chechnya. They hope a black Islamic flag and a display of postcard-size stickers advertising a conference on Sept. 11 will attract the curious. On closer inspection, it is clear the conference's message will be anything but passive. The stickers at the al-Muhajiroun group's stall depict THE MAGNIFICENT 19, a lineup of the 9/11 hijackers set against New York City's burning Twin Towers and a smiling Osama bin Laden...
Early in the half, Fisher drew the (loud) ire of Crimson coach Tim Wheaton when she declined to play a long ball toward the corner flag...
...wasn’t a good ball to feet or someone laying it in so they could first-touch get a cross off,” Westfall said. “They were pushing their line up, so we just tried to hit it to the corner flag, get them facing their own goal and then lock them...
...lose an event it had won at each of the last six World Championships and every Olympic Games it attended since 1968 - raised full-scale alarms about the buying of athletes. Would teams from poorer countries now face regular poaching by rich ones? Should athletes be able to change flags as easily as, well, track shoes? Grumblings that Cherono had sold out were encouraged when his own brother failed to congratulate him after they crossed the finish line. The International Association of Athletics Federations - which organizes the World Championships - joined in the consternation. "One week you're Kenyan, a week...
...fashion at MTV: the bastion of video cool is putting a spreadsheet maven in charge of its international operations. Alex Ferrari, a 21-year finance-department veteran, will oversee the 96 channels outside the U.S. that account for 80% of MTV's viewers. "We've pretty much planted the flag everywhere that we can possibly be," he says. His challenge? Keeping pace with the 40% earnings growth his division registered last year and increasing the audience in developing markets such as India and China, where MTV recently launched a 24-hour channel...