From the cover of the New York Times Magazine, an English-language publication: “El deporte americano ya es un deporte Latino. Cómo Omar Minaya esta; creando una nueva imagen del beisbol. (The American game is now a Latin game. How Omar Minaya is building a beisbol brand.)”; The cover also sported a full head photo of Pedro Martinez, the pitching ace of the New York Mets who last year helped the Boston Red Sox become the World Champions of Major League Baseball.

Robert Mueller, director of Federal Bureau of Investigation, told the Senate Committee on FBI Oversight that the agency has a growing backlog of untranslated intelligence related to terrorism, that the FBI takes longer to hire translators, and that its computerization problems remain unsolved.

Honda Automobile (China) Co., Ltd. (CHAC), an export automobile production joint venture of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Honda Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Auto Group Co., Ltd. and Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd. began exports to Europe of the compact passenger car Jazz. Next year Honda will ship Acuras from Japan to China.

Simon Property Group has signed a Co-operation Framework Agreement with the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds and SZITIC Commercial Property Co. to develop retail shopping center projects in China. Simon and MSREF will each own 32.5% of the enterprise while SZITIC CP will own 35%. Each project will be an urban, multi-level, retail destination of between 40,000 sq. m and 70,000 sq. m (430,000 and 750,000 sq. ft.), anchored in all cases by a Wal-Mart store.