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...Iraq's goalkeeper Noor Sabri, who made the vital save that allowed his countrymen to prevail 4-3, recognized the significance of the team's triumph: "You know the situation of the difficulties in Iraq," he told the Associated Press after the game. "What we can achieve inside the field, it's a modest thing we can give to our people. We have to show them we are sharing with them the celebrations...
...scores of doctors failed to produce a conclusive diagnosis. With time of the essence and Kobayashi barely able to open his jaw, he posted a plea on his blog for doctor referrals. As Kobayashi is a national hero in Japan, where competitive eating has been popular for years, his countrymen responded in droves with offers to help. Soon after his posting, Kobayashi had a wisdom tooth pulled and began treatment for jaw arthritis...
...Dhani first has to win over his homeland, however. He grew up in Surabaya, listening to Queen and Japanese jazz-fusion outfit Casiopea. After notching up seven platinum albums in Indonesia with his own band, Dewa 19, he announced his intention to wean millions of his countrymen away from extremist Islamic views. "What happens depends on how we deal with the radicals and teach people about Islam," explains Dhani, who says he quit a religious school as a child because he was put off by its conservative Wahhabi teachings. "It's time to come together, even if we have...
...flight often approaches its destination only to have the pilot announce that the plane will have to circle the airport for a while-not because there's bad weather or a mechanical glitch, but because of congestion on the ground. Mehta's plight is shared by thousands of his countrymen. Thanks to India's economic prosperity and the booming growth of its airline industry, more Indians are flying today than ever before. But they are enjoying it less, because more than half of all domestic flights are now delayed by 30 minutes or more. "We needed this boom because people...
...contrast, when I pulled off of U.S. Highway 90 in Pascagoula, Miss., to watch the USA–Italy game, the patrons in the roadside bar didn’t seem to know as much about soccer as their Cantabrigian countrymen, but at least they knew who to root...