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...reputation. At press luncheons or in the corridors by the critics' mail boxes, we hear of a picture that has seized some early viewers' imaginations and becomes a Word of Mouth hit. Then we beg the publicist for an extra screening. It's as if we learned that a cup of café au lait at some backwater dive was the Holy Grail. Gotta have a sip from that...
...Among Western nations, Germany is in front. Last year, it became the first Western team to reach the quarter-finals in the prestigious King's Cup, an annual tournament held in Bangkok. The players' football skills helped, says Angerhausen: "There's a technical part of football you really can use if you play sepak takraw, and vice versa...
...President's international hockey tournament in Minsk. In a desperate moment, a Belarusian tripped the Gazprom captain with his stick, but the Russian scrambled back to his feet to pass the puck in a lightning movement that led to a goal. Gazprom won the game 4-3, and the cup. And well it should, smiled the Gazprom captain Alexander Medvedev, 51, because Gazprom always wins...
...Wimbledon), only to fade fast. But tease or not, the game's most compelling personality--hip, brash, beautiful--is once again part of the conversation, which tends to be lively when Serena is talking. "She's a complicated person," notes Zina Garrison, Serena's coach on the U.S. Fed Cup team. "And the world is intrigued with people that they can't quite figure...
...Europeans. But as the U.S.'s starting inside right forward, Pariani, who grew up in the soccer-obsessed St. Louis, Mo., neighborhood, "the Hill," was part of one of the most famous upsets in the sport's history. The U.S.'s stinging defeat of England in the 1950 World Cup tournament inspired the 2005 film The Game of Their Lives...