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...Argentina's qualifying march. Overall, he has a strike rate of one goal every other game?better even than English idol Michael Owen. Where Batistuta is a smooth assassin, Crespo is a wily pickpocket, deceiving defenders and slipping unnoticed into goal-scoring positions. At 26, he is at the peak of his powers, and although he hasn't scored in recent friendlies, he has looked sharp...
...planes exploding in flames, bodies falling through the air. And in their wake, more mundane but still disquieting pictures--endless lines in the airports, armed guards watching as shoeless innocents empty their pockets (while across the world people clamor for America's humiliation). To many of us, as the peak vacation season draws near, travel may seem a less appealing prospect than it has ever been...
...tell them there is but one messiah, and he is Genta Ogami," he declared, his surgically enhanced face conveying dead seriousness. He turned to Kensuke Inoue, a trusted associate whom he had installed as bank president, saying, "At this point, I want the speech to hit an emotional peak." Ogami then asked, "Do you think you could start...
...Salomon, where telecom analyst Jack Grubman earned more than $10 million a year reeling in underwriting clients. That princely pay had nothing to do with his stock advice. Grubman rated the disastrous stock WorldCom a strong buy until mid-March, although it was down 88% from its June 1999 peak. Salomon--which has told Spitzer it did not save e-mails between analysts and bankers, as required by the SEC--says Grubman acted out of conviction, not self-interest...
...REACHED THE SUMMIT. TAMAE WATANABE, 63, retired office worker; of Mount Everest. The Yokohama native is the oldest woman to scale the planet's highest peak. She broke the record set by a 50-year-old Polish woman two years ago. Watanabe has previously climbed Dhaulagiri I and Gasherbrum II, both of which are also in the Himalayas and each over 8,000 meters high. DIED. DOUGLAS PIKE, 77, Vietnam aficionado who compiled over seven million pages of documents on the country, as well as penning eight novels and numerous articles on the Viet Cong; in Lubbock, Texas. Pike first...