Word: fallen
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...just because of hurt pride but because the Serbs, a people used to war and not known for sentiment, have fallen hard for the surprising generation of tennis phenoms that have emerged from their midst. Serbian women are taking their division by sheer talent - and, okay, by looks too. Pony-tailed Ana Ivanovic, 19, came from nowhere to make the final of the French Open earlier this year, with a website that has registered more hits than that of the previous tennis bombshell, Maria Sharapova of Russia. Jelena Jankovic, 22, is headed for a quarterfinals match with Venus Williams...
...drank overseas? It had been carried maybe a mile in a clay jug on someone's head or brought up from the canal in a goatskin over someone's shoulder. I think tap water is great. Selling water is surely the biggest scam of the century, and Americans have fallen for it. Marjorie Dye, Pasadena, Calif...
...agenda to turn Turkey into a Shari'a state. Turkey's economy is too diversified to allow a theological clique to somehow seize power against the wishes of the people. Indeed, while the majority of Turks are Muslim, the number who think Shari'a is a good idea has fallen to below 10%. An overwhelming majority rank economic progress as their top priority...
...people work their whole life and won't make the kind of money you've fallen into. All you've done is catch a baseball. Do you feel any guilt about that...
...Edwards hopes these people will propel him to the 2008 Democratic nomination, despite national polls and fund-raising tallies that heavily favor Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The Democratic establishment has fallen into line behind Clinton; a great many people are inspired by Obama; the media are preoccupied with the competition between the two. But Edwards is busy casting his own spell in Iowa, where he came from nowhere to a second-place finish in 2004, before joining John Kerry's ticket as the vice-presidential candidate. He is betting that early success in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South...