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...Zheng Jie, it all came down to the nifty clothes. A lot of youngsters fall in love with tennis because of the exhilaration of a perfect ace or the thrilling geometry of a well-placed volley. But when Zheng was growing up in China's rural Sichuan province, she knew little about the game. The coaches who approached her in 1990, when she was seven years old, had to explain that tennis was like ping-pong, only with a bigger, fuzzier ball. Still, there were advantages to playing this strange sport. "Because my teammates and I were among the first...
...quick volley of cell phone calls sent the news to the Sago Baptist Church, where friends and family members had gathered. Hundreds of people then leapt to their feet and surged out the front door...
After holding their fire during the national elections, Iraqi insurgents unleashed a volley of car bombings, shootings and kidnappings across the country last week, leaving U.S. officials with the distinct impression that Sunni political leaders can turn the violence on and off at will. Abu Abdullah al-Anbari, a field commander of insurgents, told TIME that he had been given orders by unnamed superiors not to attack Iraqis during the four days surrounding the Dec. 15 balloting to allow the vote to go forward. The goal, he said, was to get Sunnis to the polls in order to "create...
...tallest players on the team, Merritt moved to her customary position in front of the goal. The free kick was sent to the far side of the box, where Lau was able to redirect it back in front of the net. Merritt struck a half-volley off the hands of the diving goalie and into the back of the net for her second goal of the young season...
Maryland goalie Kathryn Masson only needed one save for the shutout as the Crimson wasn’t able to get a shot beyond freshman Tami Jafar’s first-half volley...