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When the state security court sent Istanbul's Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan to jail in 1998, his pro-Islamic Virtue Party wept crocodile tears. The courts, guardians of the secular Turkish state, had been lying in wait for the charismatic Erdogan. So when he recited a well-known poem at a political rally, it was their chance to pounce. Their verdict was that quoting "minarets are our bayonets"; amounted to using religion to incite hatred - but many believe his greater crime was appealing to voters who wouldn't normally opt for a party with an Islamic reputation. The Virtue Party...
After Andy Williams, 15, was arrested for opening fire on his classmates in Santee, Calif., last week, his mother Linda Williams wept before a TV crew and said, "He's lost. His future's gone." No grownup in his life seems to have been looking out for that future before the shooting. Charles Andrew Williams had been a lost boy for some time--hopelessly adrift in a dysfunctional, anonymous suburban landscape, craving acceptance but too often meeting rejection instead...
...tribe formerly known as the Catty People turned all gooey at the sight of Mike and his Promethean paws. Elisabeth wept, Jeff was about to puke like a rookie cop at a crime scene, and even Alicia managed to look concerned at her rival for head alpha male. Maybe it was the raw tragedy of it all, maybe it was the sight of Mike screaming for drugs like a woman in labor. ("Shots - drugs - pain - I can take it - I'll take whatever you give me!") Maybe it was just that they'd gotten really excited about the prospect...
...fearing and charming. Then Hansie Cronje's dirty secret was exposed: for years he'd been making clandestine deals with bookmakers. At first he denied all. But as the evidence mounted he confessed, blaming the devil and his own "unfortunate love of money." Last June, in Cape Town, he wept on the stand at the King Commission of Inquiry into match-fixing. Months later, he was kicked out of cricket for life...
...everything-that's-wrong-with-modern-sports poster girl, JENNIFER CAPRIATI, 24, finally made good on all of her promise by whupping Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 in the final of the Australian Open, notching her first-ever Grand Slam tournament. "I got the chills," said Capriati, who wept after slamming a backhand winner on the first match point past Hingis for the championship. Hingis, 20, had never lost to Capriati in five previous matches, but Capriati actually used her underdog status--she was seeded 12th--and newly discovered maturity to her advantage. "I thought, 'Why be nervous...