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...dance comes around, some of the game's best exponents find themselves sitting it out. Some individual geniuses have the misfortune of being born in countries lacking in footballing talent: Manchester United's George Best, the supreme artist of the 1960s, never went to the big show because Northern Ireland couldn't muster 10 other world-class players to play alongside him. Sometimes, favored teams inexplicably miss the cut?remember England in '94? The expansion of the Cup's final stages was supposed to improve the odds in favor of good players and squads: 32 teams participated in France...
...Dutch are the most surprising absentees. Despite fielding a galaxy of stars, a top-notch coach in Louis van Gaal and a relatively easy qualifying group, the Orangemen were beaten to the draw by Portugal and Ireland. Yes, Ireland. What went wrong? "At some stage, the players lost their heads," said the famously acerbic coach after his team went down to the Irish in the crunch game. At week's end, the beleaguered Van Gaal finally quit over his failure. But in a way we'll all be punished, deprived of the languid grace of Patrick Kluivert, the quick thinking...
...waits in a serpentine queue in the crowded departure terminal at Stansted Airport near London, pinstripe-suited Canon executive Brian Owen, 58, is an easy-to-spot casualty of this corporate belt tightening. He's on his way to Ireland via Dublin-based Ryanair, and it's his first business trip on a low-fare carrier. Despite the daunting check-in wait, Owen--who like most discount flyers bought his ticket online--pronounces the experience so far "pretty painless." By comparison, Glasgow-bound Adrian Eve, 27, a marketing executive for aerospace firm BAE Systems, is a veteran...
...later set off controlled explosions at a deserted farmhouse near Leeds. Police said the Real I.R.A., which opposes a Northern Ireland cease-fire, were the main suspects in recent attacks in Birmingham and West London. PAKISTAN A Miracle Rescue for Afghan Aid Workers Eight aid workers arrested by the Taliban in August on charges of promoting Christianity were freed last week after the city of Ghazni fell to Northern Alliance troops. Taliban forces took the two Americans, two Australians and four Germans with them in the retreat from Kabul. Abandoned in Ghazni, the workers were picked up by Northern Alliance...
...There are those unfortunately who want to stop the agreement and return Northern Ireland to the past,” he said. “But we have moved on and there’s no going back...