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...Ichiro's at bats are clinics in working over a pitcher: stretch, shirt tug, foul, foul, foul, flare to left center. With his maddening skill at making contact, it's nearly impossible to fire three pitches past Ichiro. When he dives after a curveball in the dirt, as Zito induces him to do in his first at bat, "I can't really pat myself on the back," Zito says. He figures Ichiro just made a rare mistake...
...theological books, 1974's Revelation: Illustrated and Made Plain. The reporter discovered that LaHaye had called Catholicism a "false religion" and said Rome "too often gives man a false security that keeps him from seeking salvation." The Sun reprinted the comments on a Friday; Catholics and reporters cried foul, and LaHaye resigned from the campaign the following Monday...
...same sports bureaucrats were still calling foul when Hiddink's methods seemed to be leading to humiliation. In a series of international matches against teams such as reigning champions France, Korea lost and lost and lost, even falling to the lowly rated Czech Republic. Newspapers called for Hiddink's head, railing at him for cruelly pitting the Koreans against superior sides. But the controversial strategy paid off, as the team learned how to sustain its stamina against mightier squads. Three of Korea's key World Cup goals have come late in the game, when Portugal, Italy and the U.S. were...
...Trap, as he is known, should shut it. His team didn't have the host nation's burning hunger to win. And, in his post-game harangue, the coach conveniently forgot to criticize his captain, Francesco Totti, for getting sent off for faking a foul in the Korean penalty area, and to fault his striker, Christian Vieri, for missing a couple of sitters in front of the goal...
...posts and was escorted offstage. The 76-year-old had spent the convention bemoaning the laziness of the country's Malay population, which he's tried to bootstrap into prosperity for two decades. Luckily, his party rejected the resignation. Of course, UMNO needs Mahathir, fair mood or foul: the PM is expected to call a general election next year and without the old man, the party cadre could be weeping...