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...Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, concerned about the economic health of these struggling clubs, split each league into two six-team divisions; that way, more teams could contend until later in the season, boosting attendance and local TV ratings. The winner of each division would then have to play a best-of-five series to take the league title. Kuhn could also sell these extra games to national TV broadcasters, filling baseball's coffers...
...Khosal's brother Dawood says local tribes want Australian troops to quit the area, but he does not believe President Karzai has the power to order them out. In a meeting in Kabul, he says, Karzai offered to continue paying his father's salary every month. The Australian government says it is negotiating to pay compensation to Khan's family. ADF head Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said, "We deeply regret [Khan's] death. We are working very closely with [Khan's] tribe to ensure that this has no far-reaching negative effects on our operations in the province...
Give 'em a taste of their own medicine - that might as well be the motto of Operation Leopard, a new approach to policing adopted in the town of Pitsea in southeast England earlier this year. Local residents had complained of their deteriorating quality of life as reports poured in of mounting theft, vandalism and public drunkenness by gangs of petty criminals known as "hoodies" because of their preference for hooded sweatshirts. The local constabulary came up with an unlikely solution: "We basically decided to harass them," Fergus Caulfield of Essex Police says of the hoodies. Operation Leopard involves police officers...
...operation has certainly been a roaring success in the town of 25,000. On a housing estate that usually reported five crimes a day, none were reported during a week-long trial run, prompting a local homeowners' association to raise $26,000 to help fund the operation for the rest of the year. And Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, urged police forces across the U.K. to adopt similar programs...
...Still, the local art world isnt' getting too depressed - yet. Says Bashat, the director of the Opera Gallery Hong Kong, "Many buyers see art as a safer investment in the mid to long term compared to other investments in the market." Buyers may be turning away from contemporary Chinese art today, but at least they are keeping an eye on Asia...