Word: priore
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...genius and Rivaldo's magic touch to Kahn's mountainous presence and Ballack's surgical strikes. But the Yokohama gods may see differently. After all, what do I know? But the very fact that the final is between this Brazilian and this German team, both of whom were judged prior to the tournament to fall far short of the standards set by their illustrious forebears, is testament to the power of tradition in international football...
...shock defeat by South Korea was Osama bin Laden. Italy, the country that invented vendetta, wasn't content merely to point fingers, either. Someone had to take the fall. The victim: Ahn Jung Hwan, who scored the golden goal for Korea that knocked Italy out of the Cup. Prior to his hometown heroics, Ahn was an unremarkable player for Perugia in Italy's Serie A league. Perugia president Luciano Gaucci last week booted Ahn off the team. "I have no intention of paying a salary to someone who has ruined Italian soccer," Gaucci hissed, calling the Korean's suddenly sensational...
...seems that the White House was aware of unspecified terrorist threats prior to Sept. 11 [SPECIAL REPORT, May 27], but is it right to blame the President or his staff? They didn't know exactly when these attacks were to take place or where or how. Has everyone forgotten who the true terrorists were that day? The most important thing to remember is that thousands of lives were lost. People should stop blaming those who, even if they had done everything in their power, probably wouldn't have been able to stop the attacks. We should now focus...
...information available prior to Sept. 11 did not justify grounding commercial air traffic. But what about tightening security? Were intermediate measures inconceivable? Why is everything in this Administration always one extreme or the other? Good or evil; for us or against us; fly planes or ground planes? JEFFREY SAINIO Milwaukee...
Building Kuala Lumpur's Islamic Arts Center, an Arabian gem replete with white marble, rippling fountains and sky blue onion-shaped domes in the middle of Malaysia's tropical capital, was a labor of love for two men. One of them is Malaysia's Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad. Prior to the four-story museum's completion in 1998, Mahathir would regularly show up at the construction site, often after his weekly equestrian sessions. At his side was a skinny, balding businessman named Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary. The two men would pore over blueprints, tour the site to monitor progress...