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...hope that the antipathy was restricted to an irrational few or might blow over after the Games disappeared. In a poll taken before Korea was a co-host of the 2002 soccer World Cup, Ohno topped Osama bin Laden as the person Koreans least wanted to attend. Neither showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Short Memories | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

...just to prove it was possible to serve in Congress and still see your children. ?Heath, Rahm, I?m at the pool with my kids,? he said, and then quickly hung up. Another time, ?Heath, I?m driving my kids to school.? Later, ?Heath, we?re getting ready for soccer practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leading the Dems' Charge | 1/27/2006 | See Source »

...Mexico has been spurred by an unusual marketing campaign. Executives discovered that the HSBC name is a tongue twister in Spanish, so it launched ads to teach Mexicans how to pronounce the brand correctly. In one TV spot, a man in an HSBC tie leads a crowd at a soccer match in an H-S-B-C cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: banking: The Bank That Ate the World | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...failing American actress, Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson). As Chris grows both more successful in London society and more involved with Nola, he seems to be propelled by unnaturally good luck, until he is forced to make a critical choice between his two lives. Rhys-Meyers (the heroin-chic soccer coach from “Bend it like Beckham”) adroitly portrays one of the most fascinating characters in recent cinema. Chris is at once despicable and admirable, gripped by paranoia as he faces the temptations of wealth and beauty. Rhys-Meyers skillfully contorts his gorgeous face to convey...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Match Point | 1/6/2006 | See Source »

...Schoolboys strive to emulate him. And girls by the thousands dreamily chant his name whenever he appears ... George Best is the name, and his fans hail him as the most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: 'Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger.' Long of hair and short of temper, Best, 23, has been a marked man since 1968, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

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