A Balkan Border Dispute Is Nonviolent but Nettlesome SECOVLJE, Slovenia, or PLOVANIJA, Croatia, July 14 — Even in a very small country like Slovenia, population under two million, you would not expect a matter of customs duties on a washing machine to...
Diplomats Seek Foreign Patrols for Mideast JERUSALEM, July 17 — Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and Secretary General Kofi Annan of the United Nations called Monday for an international force in southern Lebanon to end the fighting...
Change to the Turf Offers Horse a Chance to Show Off They have been linked since spring, two colts who shared the same owners and were undefeated when they entered the starting gate for the Kentucky Derby. A photo even showed them running side by side...
Frustration Builds as Rookie Truex Goes Round and Round LOUDON, N.H., July 17 — Like any rookie in any racing series, Martin Truex Jr. is spending his first year as a Nascar Nextel Cup driver building what he likes to call a notebook. The things he learns...
Bonds and Legal Case Coming to Life SAN FRANCISCO, July 17 — In the first inning Sunday, a few moments after he climbed the dugout steps into the sunshine, Barry Bonds turned toward the fans standing and cheering him from the...
Playing for Fun, and Little Else, on Football’s Edge It was just another night in the football career of Virginia Leon. Ice packs were wrapped around an elbow and a knee; a heating pad lay on a hip. Then her husband looked her over and decided he could...
