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“He loved to talk about his career, when asked, and was a living piece of history,” said Guberman. “He told us about the time that Al Capone wanted to meet him after a match, but he refused, because he ?...
Breaking the Grass Ceiling Growing up in the Swiss canton of Jura, Nicole Petignat says, "all we had was soccer." Lots of girls dabbled in the beautiful game, but Petignat made a rarer call: she decided to become a referee. What a call it turned out to be. Petignat, 36...
she has been refereeing international women's matches since 1996, UEFA's appointment "was a total surprise," says Petignat, whose biggest worldwide exposure so far has been officiating at the 1999 Women's World Cup final between the U.S. and China. "Nicole has shown herself more than capable of meeting...
Abbas, however, has no intention of waging war on the very groups with whom he painstakingly negotiated the "hudna." His view of the path to peace is to slowly draw them into the Palestinian Authority, and commit them to the political agreements he negotiates with Israel. Israelis are not impressed...
The U.S. had pushed Pakistan for months to launch this operation. Military intelligence suggested that a dozen terrorists--possibly including bin Laden--might be holed up in the feisty Mohmand tribe's mountain stronghold, which straddles the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The plan was to have the Pakistanis sweep...