In '73, Nastase made sure things got a bit nasty
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HOUSTON -- Marat Safin, the mad Russian, may be a one-man demolition derby with tennis racket, Lleyton Hewitt a furious in-your-face adversary, Roger Federer a light-fingered pickpocket in short pants, and Andy Roddick a youth impersonating a thunderbolt. But these strong-willed contenders in this week's elite shootout called the Masters Cup aren't up to the theatrical standards of a guy ...
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For once, Joe Torre, the Yankees' manager, had to explain what went awry against a perennial punching bag.
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There were several moments during the Felix Trinidad/Ricardo Mayorga press conference at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday that it seemed possible there would be a deterioration
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EXIT polls from Romaniaâs presidential run-off yesterday showed the race between the Social Democrat prime minister, Adrian Nastase, and the opposition leader, Traian Basescu, was too close to call.
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This film may have worked if it were made in the early 1960s.
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Medical care was at times so scarce and shabby that it became another kind of abuse. An inside look
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They worried about security for seven  years and it turned out to be the least of their problems.
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NBA Commissioner David Stern did what should have been done a long time ago: He got tough with players who crossed the line and carried violence into the stands.
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Life & style: On the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality, we revisit the appallingly repressive atmosphere of the Fifties and Sixties.
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Monday was a memorable day. The system was thrown into confusion. At the Social Democrat Party (PSD), the bitter pill of losing the presidency caused gloomy visions.
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There have been signs of danger he has read about, warnings of trouble told to him.
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Old-fashioned hygiene is advised in the war on drug-resistant staph.
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The image of Michael Stone being wrestled to the ground Friday while trying to enter the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast harkened to the bad old days, when there was no future in Ireland, only the past happening over and over again.
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Romanians who fought in the country's 1989 revolution are asking a newly elected president to investigate why so many former communist officials kept their jobs through the 1990s, well after the downfall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
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One  night in 2003, on the wintry streets of Kosovo, a group of thugs stalked and beat Gramoz Prestreshi almost to death. Police in the war-scarred Balkan province laughed and called him names. The emergency room workers made him mop up his own blood. It was a sordid but hardly unusual episode in...
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Apparently, when the good fathers of Notre Dame lately looked to their football sideline, they saw a fellow who wasn&#39;t nearly as acceptable as even Gerry Faust or Bob Davie, each of whom was allowed to squeeze out five years in South Bend.
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Romania faced weeks of uncertainty on  Monday after inconclusive general elections in the poor Balkan  country, already struggling to stay on track to join the  European Union.  Partial results showed the ruling ex-communist Social Democrats  (PSD) of Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a whisker ahead of the  opposition centrists in Sunday's election but well short of a  majority in parliament.