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...More importantly, the Russians believed they could attack too, particularly against a team with a one-striker system as the Dutch employ. The Russians are not plodders. It's a team of whippets: thin, very fit and athletic. Against Greece, left wing fullback Yuri Zhirkov repeatedly attacked up the flank and poured cross after cross toward the tall striker Roman Pavlyuchenko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euro 2008: And Then There Were Four | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

...lives" - and their tolerance for the beliefs of others may suggest creedal confusion, this appears not to trouble good-hearted U.S. pew-sitters. Says Lindsay, "The problem is not that Americans don't believe in anything, but that they believe in everything, and the two things don't always fit together." But he adds, the views are consistent with tolerant views expressed by Evangelicals he met in various cities as he toured while promoting his book. Mohler agrees: "We've seen this coming," adding that the query about whether others can make it to heaven "has been the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christians: No One Path to Salvation | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

...pregnant as early as last fall. She noted that some of the girls involved had been identified as being at risk of becoming a teen mother as early as sixth grade, when they began to request pregnancy tests in middle school. "What we've seen is the girls fit a certain profile," Todd said. "They're socially isolated, and they don't have the support of their families." (Read "Gloucester Principal Stands by Story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloucester Pregnancy Plot Thickens | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

...think you are worried because you want your lives not just to be conventionally successful, but to be meaningful, and you are not sure how those two goals fit together,” Faust says, according to a copy of her prepared remarks. “You are not sure if a generous starting salary at a prestigious, brand-name organization together with the promise of future wealth will feed your soul...

Author: By Adam M. Guren and Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Graduates Head to Investment Banking, Consulting | 6/22/2008 | See Source »

...just super-excited. I love this guy," Bill Gurley, a Benchmark partner, told me. "We always feel a very strong need to find the best young talent to fit the criteria of what we think it takes to be a great venture capitalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Loses a Top Executive | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

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