Word: pepe
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...Still, Portugal's 2-0 dismantling of Turkey was an early warning the Portuguese are all about avenging their crushing upset to Greece in the 2004 final. Its defense, led by Real Madrid's Pepe, prefers to pass the ball out of its own box rather than boom long clears. In the middle of the park the petulant Deco kept demanding balls that by rights belonged to Christiano Ronaldo, who drew Turkish defenders like the moon does the sea. Here's a guy, who, with three opponents on him, doesn't even think about reversing the ball but instead decides...
...that he, and not they, got to choose the timing of his exit, and that his regime will linger on in large part under his brother. (Although it also has to be a downer for Fidel to step down just months short of his golden anniversary in power.) Jose "Pepe" Hernandez, president of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation, which backs the trade embargo, said Fidel's departure "opens a new chapter in Cuban history," but stresses that "we have to see what the successors of Fidel Castro are going to do with these opportunities they [now] have...
...know from Hamad's article that Jesus was a Jew. When Muslim armies arrived to take the Holy Land by force in the 7th century A.D., the Jews were there to greet them, as was a relatively new Jewish sect whose members accepted Christ as their savior. Gary Pepe, Redding, California...
...sweet, cheerful, sensitive boy who knows neither that he is adopted nor that he was born HIV positive. Surely Laura and Carlos love him at least as much as any birth child. But they are both beguiled and troubled by Simon's affinity for imaginary friends: Watson and Pepe, whose invisible eccentricities (as related by Simon) they've got used to, and a new companion, Tomas, whose influence seems much more malignant...
...lifted off its moorings by the roar pouring from the Kop, the famous home end of the arena (named for the site of a famous Boer War defeat of the British) where Liverpool's faithful turn their stadium into a living hell for visiting teams. Robben's shot to Pepe Reina's left, perhaps slowed by the decibel level, was snared by the Spanish keeper; moments later Reina went to his right to parry the effort by Geremi, putting Chelsea in a hole from which it would not escape. Dirk Kuyt sealed the victory for Liverpool on the fourth kick...