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...N.O.C.I.). Al-Samarrai saw that the N.O.C.I. had to alter its business strategy. Drawing on oil revenues and Saddam Hussein's seized assets, the CPA granted the N.O.C.I. a $10 million operating budget this year and a $3 million capital budget earmarked for a renovation of the national soccer stadium in Baghdad. The N.O.C.I. estimates that it needs $25 million to keep sports going and an additional $98 million to renovate gyms and soccer fields. The Iraqis are used to such shortfalls; Uday diverted Olympic money to his palaces and planes. But in the post-Saddam era, the N.O.C.I...
...always been a Yankees fan, but my real love affair with the Bronx Bombers began during the 1996 World Series. I remember watching Wade Boggs ride around Yankee stadium on the back of a horse to the cheers of 57,000 screaming fans after the Yankees beat Atlanta in Game 6 to win their first World Series since 1979. I was hooked...
...even if my love of the Yankees isn’t as strong as it once was. And that’s not to say that my love for the Yankees will ever disappear entirely. I’ll still feel a rush when I walk into Yankee Stadium to see a game. But this summer I’ve reconciled myself to the fact I will probably never worship the Yankees the way I once did. And I’ve almost put to rest my old dream job of one day becoming the first female general manager...
That may elicit groans from the stadium seats, but it probably gets sustained applause in the Knightley household. Knightley portrays her parents--playwright Sharman Macdonald and stage actor Will Knightley--as the noblest and humblest of theater folks. One of her favorite stories about how they suffered for their art has to do with her conception: "I was a bet. My mum was desperate for another child, and my dad told her that the only way they could afford to have one was if she sold a play. So Mum wrote When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream...
...they were rusty—or jetlagged—they sure didn’t show it on June 20, leading a Tim Murphy-coached Japanese all-star squad to victory over four Yale alums and their affiliates at Tokyo National Stadium...