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...three-star general and head of the Mangla army base, located at the most sensitive stretch of the Line of Control dividing Kashmir, he was famous for speeding through work by 2 p.m. so he could spend the rest of the day sailing and playing Ping-Pong, tennis or squash with the men. "There wasn't a game he couldn't learn," says Major General Rashid Qureshi, who served with Musharraf and is his official spokesman. "We found him everywhere the troops were." It's a refrain you hear often in military circles: Musharraf was excellent with...
...London studio. Swann, 33, will start a postgraduate course at London's Royal College of Art in a few months. He studied European finance and accountancy at Leeds Metropolitan and worked for Goldman Sachs before returning to painting seven years ago. His current subjects are artificially illuminated football fields, squash courts, sports pavilions, golf driving ranges. His walk home after dark from a former studio "took me past all these sports complexes and football pitches. These places seemed to have a different dynamic at night. The last thing it seemed like was a place of recreation." He photographs the locations...
While South Asia broils, Musharraf appears to be keeping cool as he stares down the Indian threat and seeks to buttress domestic support. Renowned as a fine tennis and squash player, he moves with athletic self-assurance, projecting sturdy confidence during his frequent turns at the podium. Those who know him insist that the aplomb is real and that his composure stems from his belief that India doesn't enjoy the sort of military superiority that experts assert and will shy away from war. Musharraf claims that along the border areas, Pakistan can match India man for man, tank...
...rest of the squash world is, too. In fact, it can’t wait for the next round of the ongoing Harvard-Trinity bout, in which neither team looks like it will record a TKO anytime in the foreseeable future...
...WOMEN'S SQUASH...