Word: cupfuls
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...knew that her family would miss her, that they would be worried. But she would have been amazed at what was happening in the place where she grew up, where it seemed that no one could drink a cup of coffee, eat a piece of pie or pump a tank of gas without talking about her and wondering if she was alive or dead. That night, a nurse, an older woman, came to the room and sang her a lullaby, and even though Jessi did not know what the words meant or what it was for, the woman's voice...
...during languid summer vacation evenings. The big ticket this season is more reality TV than the usual melodrama: the mystery of what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said to provoke French soccer hero Zinedine Zidane's now notorious burst of violence during Italy's defeat of France in their World Cup final on Sunday. Almost 48 hours after Zidane's furious head-butting of Materazzi in the chest - an act provoking Zidane's ejection, an ignoble end to his otherwise stellar career - the mystery of exactly what set the 34 year-old Zidane off continues to pique the curiosity of people...
...question? Probably nothing. Polls show 61% of French people already forgive Zidane for the head-butt, while 52% say they understand his violent response. Those numbers will probably increase once the exact words Materazzi spoke are known. Meanwhile, even after seeing the head-butt, sports writers voted Zidane the Cup's best player and awarded the Frenchman the tournament's Golden Ball - a superlative their peers denied Zidane in 2001 voting for best pro player in Europe, after he broke a bone in a rival's face with an earlier head-butt...
...Retail price of the Adidas +Teamgeist soccer ball, the official ball used at this year's World Cup in Germany...
...Football and Flag Waving The article "Germany's New Pitch" [June 12] reported on Germany's willingness to create a new national image and present it to the world while the country is host of the World Cup. Public-relations campaigns alone, however, cannot explain the flag mania that has gripped the country. That Germans seem to have discovered their flag and its stylish possibilities does not give cause for concern to our immediate neighbors, who were invaded during the course of a more toxic burst of nationalism. The current popularity of the national colors seems rather...