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...might have seemed like patriotism gone wild when two members of Georgia's men's beach-volleyball team stitched the nicknames "Geor" and "Gia" onto their uniforms, spelling out the name of their team's besieged nation. But there's a twist: neither of the players is Georgian by birth - 2.04-m Renato Gomes and 1.92-m Jorge Terceiro are towering Brazilian imports recruited by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for the sole purpose of playing for his country in the Olympics...
...word of Georgian and have no family ties to the former Soviet republic. In fact, they've only visited the country a few times - to pick up their passports and presumably to finalize their contracts. But that hasn't dampened their enthusiasm for their adopted country. When "Geor" and "Gia" advanced to the semifinals with a win over a Dutch duo on Aug. 18, the mop-haired Terceiro bounded into the stands to do a little Brazilian-style samba underneath the red-and-white Georgian flag...
...targets with direct assaults on the armed forces," the French intelligence official says. Meanwhile, another French counter-terrorism official reacted to Tuesday's strike by harking back to terrorist violence that spilled out of Algeria and into France in the 1990s by AQIM's predecessor, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). "It was only after the GIA reached the summit of its strengths in Algeria that it exported terrorism to France - meaning if history is repeating itself, we may be at a very dangerous place...
...Owls guard Gia Lockett netted two consecutive buckets to give Kennesaw State a 24-19 cushion, sparking a 21-6 run over the next six minutes that Jennifer Baker capped with a three-pointer—her second in under a minute—to push the lead...
...disinterested observer. Not only did he rank 20th on the VNExpress list (his stock is worth $35 million), but FPT is the parent company of the news site that published the list. And who is Vietnam's richest person, according to VNExpress? Truong's cousin, FPT Corp. CEO Truong Gia Binh, pictured, whose shares in the tech conglomerate are worth nearly $200 million. Call it the Vietnamese Dream...