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...overseas contests, tasanoc has helped some of the country's best surfers. But by virtually any standard its budget is small: its government grant last year was $T20,000 (about $11,000), and nothing for the two years before that. "In all sports, not just surfing, the raw talents are here," says Puloka. "Every time a coach visits Tonga he says, 'You've got the talent, they just need to be developed.'" Tonga's all-time brightest sports stars, rugby players Willie Ofahengaue and Jonah Lomu, both achieved fame playing for other countries, Australia and New Zealand respectively...
...listen to people who have known him longest, what sets Roberts apart is not so much his individual virtues but how they marry: a great talker who listens well, a natural talent who works unnaturally hard, a regular guy who moonlights as a legal star. In his prime-time introduction of his nominee to take the place of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, President George W. Bush drove right past the fact that Roberts is a reliably conservative fellow who would not "legislate from the bench" and lingered instead on the career and character that would make...
...marketed for young women. Her witty new book, The Undomestic Goddess (Dial), is the story of Samantha Sweeting, a BlackBerry-toting workaholic London lawyer on the verge of making partner in her prestigious firm. Fate intervenes, and Samantha suddenly finds herself a housekeeper with not a lick of domestic talent, hurtling into a new romance. We spoke with the author by phone in London, just before a second set of bombings hit the city Thursday...
Jockey-size Levi Leipheimer, 31, the Montana-born boss of Germany's team Gerolsteiner, makes up with precision riding what he lacks in raw talent. Before each stage, he probes his bike like a quality-control engineer, obsessing over the height and angle of the saddle, its distance from the handlebars. He can drive the tech guys crazy. "I've seen him argue for 15 minutes about a difference of one and a half millimeters," says Gerolsteiner spokesman Jörg Grünefeld. Leipheimer's approach is clearly working; he reached fifth place entering the Tour's final week...
...that is becoming sadly familiar in Britain and the rest of Europe: of a disaffected younger generation drifting into radicalism under the blind eyes of immigrant parents, slowly giving up more of their lives to groups whose zeal and camaraderie offer them a sense of purpose. There they are talent-spotted by jihadists for deeper indoctrination - and finally groomed for murder. In Leeds, the nexus for their slide over the edge appears to have been a youth outreach project that was an offshoot of the government-funded Hamara ("Ours," in Urdu) community center located in the rundown Beeston area. Khan...