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...Hamm did it to save her league. The all-time top scorer in international soccer joined 18 other U.S. female stars in taking a pay cut--in her case a 29% drop, to $60,000--to keep the Women's United Soccer Association alive. Bob Knight did it out of shame. The Texas Tech basketball coach gave back his $250,000 base salary to pay penance for his team's disappointing 16-11 regular-season record. Yes, folks, even the money-charged world of big-time sports is getting into the salary-cutting game...
...religious standing to interpret the Koran, and relies for religious authority on an Iran-based Iraqi exiled cleric, Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri. But he clearly believes he will himself assume the rank of marjah - the highest authority on religion and law in Shiism, in American pop-cultural terms a knight on the highest Jedi council. His father and uncle certainly provide him with an impeccable pedigree in terms of Iraqi Shiite martyrdom. Their names - along with Muqtada's - were chanted by thousands of worshipers making the pilgrimage to Karbala last week. He denies being too young to assume spiritual authority...
Rehearsal is upbeat. In the third hour, the cast is still adding new lines to the script (“Have you heard about the vegetarian knight? He likes war and peas.”) and trying out different rap poses...
...most surprising loss of this first round was the very high-profile "Dark Knight Strikes Again," Frank Miller's sequel to his extraordinary 1986 book, "The Dark Knight Returns." I came prepared to argue against including this top-selling but second-rate work (see TIME.comix review) only to have my criticisms trumped by the outright scorn of the other judges. With the bitterness of a jilted fan, and unconsciously echoing the Simpsons' Comic-book-guy, one of them dismissed it as "the worst Frank Miller book ever...
...comic subtext revolves around the servants in Olivia’s household. The lanky England plays Aguecheek, a bumbling knight who hopes to marry Olivia, with the perfect amount of goofiness and obliviousness. He’s complimented well by Sweeney as the libidinous Sir Toby who is constantly in trouble—yet always lovable—for his drunken ways...