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...certainly not wrong that clubs should be seen to have a proportion of home-based players. You want to protect your own, and there is nothing wrong with that." Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, on the other hand, considers such ideas retrograde. He has said foreign quotas would "kill the Premier League" because it would impede the clubs' ability to find and field the best players possible. He also rejects the notion that quotas would safeguard local talent. "It won't protect the best players, it will protect the mediocre ones," Wenger has argued. "And you don't win a World...
Some RVs cost as little as $4,000, but it's the luxury market--where units range from $300,000 to over $1 million--that is booming. Country Coach, one of the nation's largest manufacturers of premier motor homes, offers models that include hardwood floors, leather couches and guest bathrooms. Last year the company reported a 22% increase in sales of RVs priced at more than...
...First came Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking U.S. assistance against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and help advancing Turkey's pursuit of entry into the European Union. Some might have thought it an odd moment for Anakara's premier to pay a courtesy call on Washington, what with the recent recall of the Turkey's ambassador to Washington in protest over moves in the U.S. Congress to label the massacre of Armenians in 1915 a genocide. And then there are the mounting fears of a Turkish incursion into Iraq to stop cross-border raids into southeastern Turkey...
...apparently asked no less. Gao confirms an assertion made in Mao: The Unknown Story, the 2005 biography by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, that Mao purposefully denied Zhou medical care for the cancer that ultimately killed him. Gao even suggests that Mao may have ordered fireworks to celebrate his Premier's demise...
...Staging a successful World Cup is symbolic of Cambodia's sporting rebirth, says Chris Minko, 51, the league's full-time secretary general. Back in the 1960s, then Premier Norodom Sihanouk promoted Phnom Penh as the sporting hub of Southeast Asia, until Indonesia stole his thunder by staging a nonaligned version of the Olympics. Secret U.S. bombings and the Khmer Rouge did the rest. But Minko, a combative, shaven-headed Australian, wants to see Phnom Penh back on top. The first step is victory on Dec. 2, which Minko hopes will help reclaim Cambodia's stature as a sports power...