Multimillionaires Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal may be upset over ATP reforms, but their problems are nothing compared with those encountered by tennis players in Iraq. Even putting together a team for next month's Davis Cup Group IV Asia/Oceania tie in Burma is an achievement, as three of their group were murdered last August.
Saddam Hussein is dead, but memories of the grandiose excesses of his 24-year reign live on in his resplendent palaces still used by the United States forces that deposed him in 2003. The late dictator built eight ornate presidential palaces across Iraq that embodied absolute power.