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...ends of the court and were playing the ball to one another through the air, crosses whizzed low and hard through the air that nary a touch at the near post would convert into a goal on match day. Thwack, one would take the ball square on his bared chest and then as it landed, fire back an equally powerful airborne pass, about seven feet off the ground, that his mate would meet with the bone of his forehead sending the ball whizzing back at the same speed. And so it went on, like a game of tennis, back...
...MEANWHILE IN GERMANY ... Get Your Kit Off Two female Green Party politicians wrote to the German Football Association demanding that players not be penalized for taking off their shirts on the pitch. The pair were shocked to see Portugal 's Cristiano Ronaldo get yellow carded for baring his chest to celebrate scoring a goal against the Netherlands during Euro 2004, and launched a campaign on behalf of female fans keen to appreciate players' "athletic torsos." Purely from an aesthetic point of view, of course...
...London Stock Exchange, and one of its largest shareholders is American. The west-London club Chelsea look set to debunk the maxim that success can't be bought, following its acquisition by ?migr? Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has added close to $200 million to the team's war-chest for buying as many of the world's best players as they can find. And the fans of Liverpool F.C., whose status as a local icon may be even greater than that of the Beatles, are facing the uncomfortable reality that the club may soon be partly owned...
...Yudhoyono may have an edge for now, but Megawati has the power of the presidency at her disposal, as well as the largest war chest of all the candidates. And although many see the President as an aloof figure who has disappointed her supporters, a few nimble political moves-from cutting taxes to abolishing school fees to reshuffling ministers-could win over plenty of skeptics. "If she starts acting like a leader and makes some strong changes to the economy and the Cabinet," says Umar Juoro, of the Center for Information and Development Studies in Jakarta, "she has a chance...
...possible that Fahrenheit 9/11 may be having an impact on Kerry's war chest. Last week, the day before the movie's surprise victory at the box office was announced, Internet donations to the Kerry campaign climbed to a two-day fund-raising record of $5 million, with no special push from the candidate. Moviegoers may be plunking down their $9 at the multiplexes, then going home and e-mailing more money to the Man Who Isn't Bush. Says former Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan of the film: "It is an exaggerated message from an imperfect messenger...