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...help the umpires make hairline decisions on whether a batsman should be called in or out, the players should have plenty more to think about than match fixing. Once played sedately on the village greens of England and known as the gentlemen's game, cricket is transforming itself for wider appeal. Night games, sponsorships, teams in national colors instead of the traditional Test cricket whites, cheer leaders, Mexican waves, blasts of Kylie Minogue in between overs, even streakers - cricket has shown itself perfectly willing to embrace the vulgarities of modern sport. The cup is expected to attract 1.2 billion...
Although Kennedy is considered a moderate by his colleagues, aspects of Interracial Relations will likely prove controversial among his wider readership...
...sweeping Saddam aside if he refuses to go along. As the Saudis sees it, the shift in emphasis from threatening the stick of war to offering the carrot of protection stands a better chance of achieving a relatively bloodless transition of power in Baghdad that would win wider acceptance in the Arab world...
...Still, despite the Bush administration's support for Sharon and its willingness to accommodate his political needs - Washington refrained, for example, from releasing its "road map" for peace before the Israeli election specifically in order to avoid putting pressure on Sharon - the wider U.S. interests in the Middle East and beyond inevitably put Washington into conflict with Sharon's political base, even if not necessarily with the prime minister himself. The U.S. has, for example, insisted that Israel refrain from expelling Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from the occupied territories - a demand popular among Likud supporters, and even more so among...
...were the police's only suspects. But in May, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying French naval technicians who were hired to work on a Pakistani submarine. The blast killed 11 Frenchmen and three Pakistanis, and it galvanized the Pakistani government into a wider crackdown on militant groups in Karachi. Hundreds of people were arrested, including Karim and Bukhari. Under interrogation, they confessed to helping abduct Pearl, then led police to his body, which Karim said he had helped bury in a walled garden in the outskirts of Karachi. Karim was unrepentant about...