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...needed wins out of both Litvak and Forgie, and both players found themselves embroiled in the day’s toughest matches.Litvak won the first set 4-6, but dropped the next two to give Brown the match.With the overall match already decided and Forgie and her opponent Alexa Baggio tied at one set apiece, and more than two hours into their match, the two coaches agreed to end the match in a tiebreak if the game score was tied at any point in the third set. Forgie quickly fell behind 3-1 in games, and for a while...
...Divine PonyTail Tells All By JEFF ISRAELY Rome He may be a practicing buddhist and one of the cleanest players in the game, but Italian star Roberto Baggio has a nasty streak just like the rest of us. In his autobiography, A Goal in the Sky, due out this month, Baggio, 34, trashes many of the famous coaches he has encountered during his long career. "The Divine Ponytail" takes angry sideswipes at Renzo Ulivieri and Fabio Capello, but reserves special venom for Marcello Lippi, his tormentor at both Juventus and Inter Milan. Baggio claims Lippi tried to recruit...
Rodrigo, you are crazy. Poor people can never use computers." That is what friends and business associates in Rio de Janiero said to Rodrigo Baggio five years ago when he told them about his dream to bring technology into the city's sprawling slums, called favelas. He didn't listen. Now Baggio, 30, operates 117 computer schools in the slums of 13 Brazilian states through his Committee for the Democratization of Information Technology (CDI). Most of the 32,000 young people who have completed classes either have jobs or are starting their own businesses. Without Baggio's inspired idea, most...
...Baggio is making a huge difference to Brazil's future, one kid at a time. It would not have been possible without a jump start by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a nonprofit international venture-capital foundation based in Arlington, Va. Ashoka has provided financial and professional backing for more than 1,000 social entrepreneurs in 34 countries who, like Baggio, are using business techniques and expertise to help people help themselves. A three-year stipend from Ashoka and its global fellowship of executives, mentors and consultants enabled Baggio to enlarge CDI beyond Rio. He hopes someday to enlarge...
...initial shock of the arrest of Simpson was dying down, the United States played host to the 1994 World Cup--an event that featured both the thrill of victory for Brazil, the agony of defeat for Baggio and his Italian teammates and its own dose of tragedy in the murder of a Colombian soccer star who inadvertantly scored the winning goal for the United States when those two countries squared...