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Yes, in a country where civil rights barriers are being shattered every day, bald men are as visible in Congress as fresh young faces in the Bush cabinet. If we learned anything from the election in November (other than the fact that Florida can’t get its act together, of course) it’s that men with hair have tightened their already-firm grip on the reigns of power. How else can you explain that fewer than 30 percent of all top officeholders in America-governors, Senators and Congressmen-are bald?...

But that important advantage over enemy forces could be eroded if a key component—infrared identification patches attached to combat fatigues that can be detected at night—were to fall into the wrong hands. NEWSWEEK has learned that 4,800 used combat uniforms bearing “glo-tape” patches were inadvertently sold to 23 U.S. and Canadian clients of an Arizona-based company between August and October of 2006, despite a determination by a Defense Department office in July of that year that the patches had to be removed and destroyed before such uniforms could be put on sale....

One franchise that takes things a little more slow and steady is Persona. The PS4 carried an extremely influential Persona 5, which has already had some extremely successful spinoffs. There’s the expanded edition, Persona 5 Royal, and there’s Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, a Koei Tecmo collaboration. The hitch is that Persona 5 Scramble hasn’t gotten the chance to be a hit in the West yet; it’s only available in Japan....

Walker joined City for an eyebrow-raising £50million from Tottenham last July, becoming the most expensive English footballer of all-time. But the 27-year-old has proved a solid investment, establishing himself as a vital member of Guardiola’s side, who head to Everton on Saturday two wins away from adding the Premier League crown to last month’s EFL Cup triumph. Along with lending width and penetration to City’s attack from full-back, Walker’s adherence to what Guardiola demands of his wide defenders – composure in possession and a willingness to come in-field and build play – has also impressed....

Happily or not, the GOP contenders are planning for the extraordinary panderthon, each hoping to become the new champion of Perot’s potent populist message. One audience will be the Perot voters. The Dole camp will mail audiocassettes to United We Stand activists. Lamar Alexander will be holding private sessions with Perotians who’ve contacted him through the Internet. At least one opposing camp claims that Phil Gramm plans to turn his appearance into a rally by packing the 8,500-seat Dallas Convention Center with home-state supporters (a Gramm spokesman scoffed at the charge)....

As Bill Clinton’s case goes to the Senate, the details of those long-ago days are relevant again. For people trying to sort through what happened back then–and what may unfold in the coming season–there is no better guide than a hitherto-obscure 1992 book called ““Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson.’’ Its author? William H. Rehnquist, the chief justice of the United States, who will preside over the Senate proceedings....

G7 finance ministers will discuss the specifics of the price cap plan on Friday, Sept. 2, with the goal of unrolling a framework about how it would operate. The concept is a flawless one, in theory. If Washington and its European partners assemble a widespread “buyer’s cartel” and actually enforce it, Moscow would no longer be able to exploit today’s high market prices and could lose out on tens of billions of dollars a year....

The first ODI against Australia was the perfect start for team India. The middle-order batting was tested. Chasing 237 on a tricky wicket, India had to ensure that there were no mini collapses. But that is exactly what happened. Maybe it was a good thing as it put the batting order to test. MS Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav stitched a solid partnership to take India home. In the end, India chased the target comfortably....

You’d be able to visit the site and bookmark the games home page, and either pop from one section to the other, or if you’re only interested in one thing you could stay on the game side or the TV/movie side. There’s a lot of overlap between games and movies and people who love one usually love the other as well, so it seems like it would be a good fit....

2003: beat Mark Philippoussis (Australia) 7-6(5) 6-2 7-6(3) A pony-tailed Federer mesmerised man mountain Philippoussis to win his maiden grand slam crown and become the first Swiss men’s singles champion. His victory was so complete it drew comparisons with seven-times champion’s Pete Sampras’s dominance of the All England Club turf and marked the beginning of a glorious Federer era at Wimbledon. 2004: beat Andy Roddick (U.S.) 4-6 7-5 7-6(3) 6-4...

It’s clear that the filmmakers have a fondness of Resident Evil and want to do right by the franchise with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. The trailer teases a film that is very accurate to the video games, with tons of Easter eggs and references to Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 2 spotted in the trailer alone. Whether or not it all amounts to a quality movie remains to be seen, but in the meantime, one has to wonder where the filmmakers will go if they get the chance to do a sequel....

La Union is part of Colombia’s “peace community” movement: a kind of grass-roots rebellion against the civil war itself. Three years ago thousands of displaced peasants from the war-ravaged rural Uraba region began a mass migration back to their abandoned homes and farms. Community leaders banned all weapons and declared their villages to be neutral territory, off-limits to combatants of any sort–whether government troops, Marxist rebels or members of the right-wing paramilitary groups that terrorize the countryside....

There have been plenty of bugs within COD Vanguard since the game launched in early November. Some are minimal nuisances, while others like the sandstorm can completely break a match and make the game unplayable. So far, this bug on the Desert Siege map hasn’t appeared in other forms of media, but if one player has captured it, then it is sure to have happened before. What does the Desert Siege sandstorm glitch look like in COD Vanguard?...

“All food and clothing donations, down this path,” she boomed. “Medical volunteers that way. But this is not a blood donation center, I’m sorry if someone told you it was.” A line stretched from the sidewalk in front of Pier 61 right down 23rd Street, blocks and blocks of people carrying stethoscopes and hard hats and sandwiches and dry clothing for the rescue workers. Surgeons and social workers, priests and electricians, architects and specialists in trauma psychology-it has been a nonstop pilgrimage since the moment of the first blast....

That said, if you’re hoping to reach those higher sums, your “trash” (what you don’t want anymore) has got to be rare in some capacity, and/or in good condition. Super Mario 64 Almost Doubles the World Record A sealed copy of the best-selling video game for the Nintendo 64, Super Mario 64, has just been sold for $1,560,000 at auction house Heritage Auctions. As reported by The Verge, it is now the first video game to be sold for more than a million dollars....

Not so, Washington kept insisting. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott formally assured Britain and France that the United States was not helping the Muslims. The Pentagon and the CIA denied they were sharing intelligence. Washington continued to obey the arms embargo, though it no longer helped to enforce it. The congressional options briefing had been required by the same law that compelled Bill Clinton to stop enforcing the embargo; the Pentagon warily pointed out that arms aid to the Muslims would require U....

The bears have become yet another species on the list of inconvenient animals in this part of America, right up there with the trash-picker possums and, of course, those loathsome shrubbery eaters, the deer. My favorite bear anecdote was the animal accused of getting physical after a man had proffered a bagel to get the bear to stick around for a photograph. The bear wanted more. What I want is an answer to this question: who gives a 250-pound wild animal baked goods?...

7th Gen. iPod Touch Camera: Technical Details Back Camera Megapixels: 8 megapixels Panoramic photos: up to43 megapixelsVideo: 1080p HD at 25, 30, or 60 frames/secondSlo-mo video: 120 frames/second FaceTime HD Camera (front-facing) Megapixels: 1. 2 megapixelsResolution: 1136 x 640Video: 720p HD at 30 frames/second 6th Gen. iPod Touch Camera: Technical Details Back Camera Megapixels: 8 megapixels Panoramic photos: 43 megapixelsVideo: 1080p HD at 30 frames/secondSlo-mo video: 120 frames/second User-Facing Camera...