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...squad during the tournament: "We don't have any bad players, but at the same time there aren't any truly good ones either." German football at World Cup 2002 was not about being pretty or polished; it was about being robotically, determinedly pragmatic. "There's never any spark of genius, "said Christoph Meyer, 36, a fan from Cologne, after Germany defeated Korea to qualify for the final...
...riding gear with a cute fedora. A thunderclap sends her rushing into his arms for shelter. Chagrined at her momentary dependence on him, she retreats. Nonchalantly, he explains that a storm is Nature's way of showing how two people come together. A boy cloud and a girl cloud spark, and that's lightning. "They kiss. Thunder!" There's a thunderclap (Fred controls all the elements here) that gooses Ginger out of her seat. As he starts the verse ("The weather is frightening,/ The thunder and lightning/ Seem to be having their way,/ But as far as I'm concerned...
...sale domestically and overseas. It has struggled since its inception four years ago. Mokhtar may also be taking over another pair of gasping Mahathir favorites: the Entertainment-Village, through which local multimedia and film industries would "leapfrog into the digital age"; and Bio-valley, a still vague attempt to spark off a Malaysian biotechnology industry. Both E-village and Bio-valley are part of the Prime Minister's Multimedia Super Corridor, a hugely ambitious?and expensive?attempt to create an Asian Silicon Valley that is floundering in the wake of the dotcom crash and the U.S. recession...
...enough jihadis already in Kashmir to keep hammering India with suicide bombs and death squads. Four people were killed by terrorists Friday night in Kashmir, even as heavy shelling continued at the frontier and an unmanned Indian spy plane was shot down by the Pakistani air force. Any small spark can still push Vajpayee to deploy his soldiers in some punitive counterattack on Pakistan, which can lead to full-scale...
...extent to which Arafat delivers on his promise of reform may depend on the outcome of the fierce power struggles already under way in his domain. The increasingly open split between West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub and his Gaza counterpart Mohammed Dahlan is threatening to spark a wave of internecine violence, while the grassroots Fatah leadership is being emboldened by Arafat's talk of reform to press ahead in its challenge to the PLO old guard that dominates the PA leadership...