Finally Found: Yesterday's Unsung Hero (F1 trivia, again)

So it was Bernd Maylander who had possibly the hardest drive of all--in the safety car. It's always a little annoying when commentators and reports don't mention who the helmeted figure in the Mercedes actually is.

Phoenix-like Saddam Hussein Rises from the Ashes (the Serious Side to the Crusades Theme)

Courtesy of LeMonde.fr's daily emailed headlines, we came across this: Saddam Hussein est-il un nouveau Saladin ?. It's talking about Enter the new Salahuddin in the Internet edition of Dawn. As ever with Le Monde it's taken its time to comment. So the (military) details of Ayaz Amir's piece are a little dated (not hard in the middle of a war, of course). The sentiments, and the different perspective, are still valid, however.

( long political entry )

And in the meantime, a further skirmish in our own western war of words leads to this: Irak: appel au boycott des expressions anglo-saxonnes en Allemagne (link found in the Grauniad's Informer).