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...little wonder that the chance to finally compete has made City followers happy. Boosted by the sale of lucrative TV rights worldwide, Premier League clubs generated a little more than $3.1 billion in revenues in 2006-'07, making the league by far the world's richest and a magnet for overseas players, coaches and investors who are keen to cash in. (Foreigners now own eight of the league's 20 teams.) But making enough money to compete at the top level is becoming harder. Of that revenue, clubs poured some $2 billion into wages alone. The result: less than half...
...last few years, Iraq was the magnet for jihadis around the world. No longer. Afghanistan, which was the center of extremist pilgrimage when it was ruled by the Taliban, has retaken that position, according to European intelligence sources. "The degree to which Islamist extremists around the world have dropped their previous obsession with Iraq and now focus on the Afghan-Pakistan area has been astounding," says one French counter-terrorism official. "No one recruiting for or seeking to join jihadist fighting in Europe are trying to get to Iraq: it's all Afghanistan now," he reports "No one raising money...
...warm waters and the comparatively gentle surf that make the Discovery Coast, as Queensland's northernmost surfing spot is known, a longboarder's paradise. Tanned, blonde wahines - that's lady surfers, if you aren't up on the argot - navigate waist-high waves. The area is also a magnet for pro surfers, but they eschew the small stuff and charter boats out to the nearby southern fringes of the Great Barrier Reef, where perfect, empty barrels unload onto jagged coral. When it's flat, there's good fishing and diving...
...they occupied under white supremacy. Most have no running water, sanitation or meaningful health care. In this sea of unmet expectation, Muyumba says South Africans vent their frustration on the only group more vulnerable than them: foreigners. As Africa's most developed nation, South Africa has long been a magnet for refugees and economic migrants. Since 2000, some 800,000 Zimbabweans have joined the tens of thousands of immigrants from Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, Congo and Somalia already in South Africa. Many of them have shared Muyumba's plight in recent weeks. He was chased from his hut in Alexandra...
...Tuesday night he will stride across the red carpet, accompanied by that nonpareil paparazzi magnet Angelina Jolie, for the screening of Changeling. The speculation is that Eastwood has a better shot at winning this year because the head of the festival Jury is Sean Penn, who won the best actor Oscar for Mystic River and may think he owes Clint a favor. It's also the consensus that this session of Cannes, where more than half the competing films have already been shown, is a relatively weak one, and that Eastwood's most acclaimed competitor so far is the Israeli...