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...Clearly, interest has been high, with 1,500 competitors entered in events ranging from soccer and cricket to volleyball, softball and arm-wrestling. The Games are staged according to strict Islamic codes, meaning that girls are separated from boys, staging their events in a large gymnasium. Inside, away from the eyes of men, some players remove their hijabs, but most prefer to keep their heads, and skin, covered...
...Black: We launched a product that I was immensely proud of, because it just looked so good. You had all these fancy graphics - cricket balls spinning in from different angles, or tennis balls, or footballs, or whatever - which, I think, made a difference. It was very interactive, we used a lot of Flash technology, which was unusual at the time...
...Britain ended its rule in India, the two countries have had their share of spats. Indian resentment over past wrongs pushed the sub-continental giant to distance itself from its colonial master and forge a role as a "non-aligned" leader during the Cold War. For years, England-India cricket matches were charged with an extra element of rivalry as the Indian team tried to outdo their erstwhile colonial masters. A little over a decade ago an Indian Prime Minister called the U.K. a "third-rate" country after a perceived slight on an anniversary, and Prince Philip caused a furor...
...affair born of shared history: Tea, for example, that most English of drinks, was first cultivated in India by British growers, who quickly undercut their Chinese competitors on price. Like cricket (which the English introduced to India) and polo (though its origins are Persian, the modern game began in northeast India and was later encoded and spread by the British), drinking tea is a joyous ritual that binds Delhi and Doncaster. (Polo is a rich man's sport, of course, but class and caste have long mattered in both countries...
...Andrew Symonds, snared at auction by Hyderabad for $1.35 million over three years, has made it clear he'd rather play in the upcoming IPL tournament than tour an unstable Pakistan as part of his national squad. "Right now you'd have to be nervous if you're a cricket administrator," Symonds warned in his Brisbane newspaper column. "The bottom line is the money on offer in India is not going away and may even get more and more tempting...