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...simple answer is no, unless you count cricket, which the International Olympic Committee rather unsportingly doesn't. The painful truth is India is rubbish at pretty much every other game. It has no football team worthy of the name, ranking 142nd in the world, behind the Maldives (paradise-island nation, pop. 339,330). Its rugby squad lost 78-3 in a recent match in England, to Pershore (pleasant market town, pop. 7,304). And in a century of Olympics, India has won just 16 medals?fewer than that other nation of a billion, China, typically wins at a single Games...
...dangerous circumstances. Jobs are in such short supply that street demonstrators in Manila last week protested a government ban on sending workers to Iraq?a ban Arroyo enacted after Filipino truck driver Angelo de la Cruz was taken hostage by Iraqi insurgents on July 8 and threatened with beheading unless the Philippines withdrew its soldiers. The protesters were undeterred by the bloodshed and kidnappings?they said they were willing to risk their lives for relatively high-paying jobs abroad...
...Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, doesn't generally publicize threats unless it has solid evidence of an impending strike. When the Palestinian uprising began in 2000, Shin Bet initially tried to keep information about imminent attacks secret. But whenever it put up new checkpoints to thwart the terrorists, radio stations would report the traffic snarls that ensued, and the government would be forced to acknowledge the terrorism threat. The Israelis noticed that this often prompted bombers to put off their journey or to make cell-phone calls to their handlers for traffic information, sometimes enabling Shin...
...theology and culture at the Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of the newly published Finding God in the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith. It was members of that generation, says Johnston, who "even if they loved God, were simply not going to church. Clergy are realizing that unless we reorient how we talk about our faith, we will lose the next generation." He sees movies as modern parables that connect to an audience that seeks not reason but emotional relevance. "As the culture has moved from a modern to a postmodern era, we have moved from wanting...
...final months of last year, faced with a hidden but looming bankruptcy, the Italian food-and-dairy conglomerate Parmalat was desperate for money. Officially, it had j3.95 billion in cash on its books; in reality, it had debts of j14 billion and no cash at all. Unless the firm could raise new money fast, it would collapse and the most spectacular alleged fraud in European corporate history would be exposed. At that point, two of Europe's biggest banks - Switzerland's UBS and Germany's Deutsche Bank - stepped in. Both injected fresh funds into Parmalat - but at a huge cost...