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...What ever happened to Africa? Weren't African teams set to challenge for supremacy after their breakout performances in 1990 and 1994? Nigeria showed a whiff of promise in dismissing Spain in 1998 but stumbled in the second round. This year the Nigerians are in worse shape. The team was torn by internal dissent that plagued their African Nations Cup performance. And, in a country that seems to suffer one political or social trauma after another, last week the team had to cope with the death of Sports Minister Ishaya Mark Aku in a plane crash. Despite the likes...
...undeterred and worked hard to return to action three weeks before the season’s end, setting the stage for her breakout performance sophomore year...
Also, sophomore Brian Garcia, who has had a breakout spring, showed promise and will complete an inexperienced but deep defensive line...
...Oscar-winning, Mandarin-speaking Harvard grad has already made it quite apparent that she can do whatever she sets her mind to. And if she had chosen to set her mind on something else, would she have found the time to kick-start her career in 1995 with a breakout performance in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite? Luckily, the young starlet-in-waiting decided against anthropology and astronomy, and instead became a star in her own right...
...rest, as they say, is history. In 1995, Mira landed an Academy Award for her breakout role in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite. From there, she went on to amass a genre-defying collection of credits, including dramatic turns in Summer of Sam and At First Sight, rough-and-tumble action roles in Mimic and The Replacement Killers and comedic romps like Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion...