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...very impressed with your report on Asia's heroes [Oct. 10]. Sania Mirza and South Korean soccer star Park Ji Sung have boosted the image of Asian athletes to new heights. Asia has always had great sports stars, but until now, very few managed to steal the limelight from Europe's important athletes. All Asia now identifies the British football club of Manchester United with Park?no mean achievement. And the Indian belle Mirza has taken the tennis world by storm. Subhobrata Basu Kolkata, India...
...rewarding to see indian tennis star Sania Mirza featured in TIME. She deserves recognition for being a rare achiever who shot up in the tennis rankings very quickly. More significantly, she is from a country where prejudice against girls is still rampant. Female fetuses continue to be aborted, creating a skewed ratio of boys to girls. Girls are considered a liability and discriminated against in many households. One hopes Mirza's success will help the girls of India live in an environment with more equality. Jagmohan Manchanda New Delhi...
...Although your write-up of Mirza was brief, it was still interesting and informative. The sudden rise of this 18-year-old Muslim on the world's tennis circuit has made her a household name not only in India but in Pakistan as well. In fact, the spectacular success of Mirza in so short a time has made the entire Muslim world proud of her. We all wish her more success in the years to come. Rafat Mahmood Ansari Islamabad...
...Chiu dismantled San Diego’s top pairing of Nic Beuque and Mirza Koristovic, powering their way to an 8-5 victory. Although Beren and senior Jordan Bohnen faltered at the No. 3 slot, Kumar and Nguyen rolled past Plotnik and Pierrick Ysern at No. 2 to give the Crimson the early 1-0 lead...
...goes in this magical movie. An itinerant schoolteacher uses the warplanes constantly overflying the fleeing Kurds as, of all things, a metaphor for mankind's aspirations. Barat finally sees the woman whose voice he loves--weepingly searching a mass grave for her brother's remains. And although Mirza never sees his long-lost beloved, he comes away from their near encounter with her child. The last we see of the old man and child, they are disappearing into a snowy field--heading toward an end we do not know...