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Zhang Shuang, a cheerful twenty-something from Liaoning, China, isn't typical pop-star material. She doesn't sing or dance or suffer wardrobe malfunctions. Her principal talent, to which she has devoted her life, is playing the pipa, a lutelike Chinese instrument more at home in Peking opera than Top-40 countdowns. Growing up, Zhang was realistic about how far that specialty might take her. "I thought that if I was lucky," she says, "I could join a traditional ensemble and do some teaching on the side...
...though the “quintessential Lingman game” has been only sporadically present this year, the California native has compiled a 30-8 record in singles—16-6 in spring dual matches—both testaments to his sheer talent...
...color of the DS-model Citro?n he has journeyed to Australia to buy. Even before the cameras rolled, Byrne surprised her director by coming into rehearsals "not learning to be blind, but already like a blind person," Law recalls. With downcast eyes, she had to survive on talent alone, in the process taking out the Copa Volpi prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival. If Troy makes Byrne a star, Goddess has shown that, deep down, she's also an actress...
...risks of overcoaching apply to older players, too, Chappell argues. In 1988, Ian Frazer was 22 when he became one of the first inductees into the Adelaide-based Cricket Academy, where the aim was to prepare the country's most promising talent for international competition. Frazer says he began his one-year stint "as someone who loved the game . . . Twenty months later I loathed it." What happened? The key to developing cricketers, Frazer says, is to give them "the right exposure at the right time." He'd reached a stage where he needed advice about touring and "self-management." What...
...concern each Saturday is that everyone have a turn. Some boys are quitting cricket because they're not very good at it, but Australian boys have been doing that for more than 150 years. And it has to be expected that some gifted players will fall away later, since talent is just one prerequisite for stardom. As Chappell's brother Ian once told this writer: "I'm often asked to look at a player and say whether I think he has what it takes. So I watch the kid and I might say, 'Well, yes, he's got the ability...