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...Lambs is more than a shrine to the game's greats. Hundreds of members - many of whom work in the big banks and law firms that make up the club's neighborhood - rub shoulders with pros on court and in the locker room. "For my teenage years and early twenties, it was the club," says Peter Nicol, 34, a British former world No. 1 who's now coaching at Lambs. "To then play in it every day was something quite special...
...That blame game won't work now. After the second attack on the shrine on June 13, Iraqis can point the finger at none but themselves; it is their security forces who are responsible for the shrine?s protection, and they failed miserably. Some of them may even have colluded with the bombers...
SAMARRA, IRAQ Bombs shatter two minarets of Shi'ite shrine...
Sectarian outrages like the June 13 attack on the holy Shi'ite shrine in Samarra - the same site that insurgents blew up in February 2006 - have plunged Iraq into civil war. But it is brainy operatives like Abdallah who pose the most consistently lethal threat to U.S. forces. When we met for our second encounter in 15 months, he didn't seem especially worried that a massive U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown had been under way in Baghdad for the past four months - and that one of its aims was to break the back of the IED industry and roll...
...professional movie-lovers - directors, actors, producers, publicists and that lowest form of film careerists, critics - Cannes is a benign and abiding addiction. Each May we come to this Riviera resort as pilgrims to the shrine of cinema. Heroically shunning the piercing blues of the Mediterranean skies, we see four or five dozen films from two or three dozen countries. At the start of each screening, we hope for epiphanies; at the closing credits, usually, we shuffle out hoping the next film will be better. But quality is not mandatory here. Each movie, good or bad, is another volume...