Word: soccers
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...Modena baker, himself an amateur opera singer, the young Pavarotti grew up dreaming instead of a career as a soccer player. Decades later, he would sing his signature tune Nessun Dorma at the inauguration of the 1990 World Cup in Italy, which by many accounts may have been his most widely seen peformance by hundreds of millions of television viewers. His last major appearance was singing at the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...
...with the Weinsteins, however. The brothers intend, as they always have, to bring what they describe as "Western sensibility" and "Western storytelling techniques" to their productions - but in so doing, critics say, they sometimes homogenize what should be distinctively Asian work. Miramax bought the 2001 Stephen Chow movie Shaolin Soccer - then the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong's history - only to recut, dub and delay the new version's release for almost two years. When it finally emerged, many fans of the original thought it ham-fisted. In the Jackie Chan pic Armour of God, the brothers excised...
...just the first weekend of the season, but the Harvard women's soccer team found a lot of opportunities at this weekend's Hartford Invitational. Chances to score? Plenty. Chances to improve? Even more. The Crimson found itself playing from behind for most of the Labor Day weekend tournament, giving up a first-half goal in a season-opening 1-1 tie with Hartford on Friday, then seeing George Mason strike twice in the second frame of Sunday's 2-1 loss. "We had plenty of opportunities, and we just have to focus on finishing," first-year coach Ray Leone...
With the sun shining favorably on Saturday, the defending Ivy League champion and 15th-ranked Harvard men’s soccer team opened its 2007 campaign with a win against the defending Atlantic 10 champion, No. 22 Rhode Island. “This is a great win for us,” co-captain Matt Hoff said. “This is one of the better teams we are going to play all season.” Fifteen minutes into the second half, with the score locked at 2-2, Hoff collected a pass on the right wing from junior...
...breast implants. Despite massive oil profits, eggs have been absent from the shelves of my local supermarket for so many months that their designated shelf has been given over to Tupperware. The mayor of Caracas has been filmed getting into a short brawl with fans at an international soccer tournament, and has proposed to deal with rampant crime by floating blimps with crime-detecting cameras in the sky. Venezuela has never been wanting for weirdness; even so, August was a stellar month...