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...flight to Los Angeles for the Academy Awards, during which he'll wander about with a television crew and draw huge ratings back in Germany. Earlier today, however, at a gathering with Völkl retailers on a tennis court at a Miami resort, he picked up a racket and swung it behind and over his head, tossing an imaginary ball. "It's still there," one retailer said. Becker nodded...
...gunfire. It was Balata's answer to the lawmen's incursion. Forty stolen cars rolled slowly out of the camp, each loaded with car thieves firing rifles in the air. Behind them walked hundreds of Balata residents. The criminals drowned the police station and the municipality in the deafening racket of their Kalashnikovs. The people of Nablus fled in fear, and their rulers--the mayor appointed by Arafat, the police chief, the Governor--all got the message: Back off. "Every day there's a fight between someone from Balata and a Nablus guy," says Hussam Khader, 39, the reform-minded...
...almost as if he has a tennis racket in his hands," says John Moses, Seattle's first-base coach. "I'm gonna lob this one?and it's a blooper over the shortstop's head. I'm gonna ace this one?and it's a liner down the right field line. He's toying with guys, and there's nothing they can do about...
...reportedly in partnership with officers of the People's Liberation Army and the Public Security Bureau. They are into everything that pays: car theft, gambling, prostitution, kidnap for ransom and even, astonishingly, petrol. The bulk of the bribes received by convicted customs chief Zhao came from smuggling gasoline. The racket worked like this: a tanker anchors in international waters and waits for motor launches to gather round. An auction follows, and the buyers smuggle the fuel to shore in barrels to sell to the nearest state-run station, no import duty paid. "The whole of southern China is running...
...Information technology personnel at some companies ignored those warnings while they circulated mostly in the technical community. FBI officials are now trying to go over their heads to alert top managers to the threat of the new cyber-racket. As one agent put it, "We can't prevent bank robberies if you don't lock the doors...