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...also bewilderment: whether or not any of the players had committed a crime, how could they be so foolish as to put themselves in this mess? "With some young players today, ego is the biggest problem," says Mark Carroll, a former Australian league player who coaches at Manly. "I pull them aside sometimes and say, 'Hey, you're a footballer. You cart around a lump of pigskin. You don't save lives.'" Sexual shenanigans by sportsmen are not, of course, confined to rugby league...
Broadbent jumped ahead early, winning the first game 9-6 and controlling the front court to pull ahead 8-3 in the second as Illingworth became increasingly frustrated, spiking his racket even before he tinned at the end of a long point...
Harvard trailed 8-6 with just 3:06 remaining in the contest. But the Crimson fought back as sophomore Sarah Kennifer scored off a pass from Keyser to pull Harvard within one with 1:21 remaining. Just 34 seconds later, junior Teresa Codini found the back of the net as well to bring the Crimson even with Bucknell at eight and force overtime...
...employee. Kaushik took the job seven months ago "to make some easy money," about $160 a month. But the credit-collection work isn't easy. "Things get monotonous; there are rude customers," she says. Combine those factors with the 10-to 12-hour night shifts that Indian IT workers pull so they can stay in synch with U.S. daytime hours--India is 10 1/2 hours ahead of Eastern time--and "it reduces life to a vacuum," says Bhagat. "Where's the time to lead a normal existence...
Such are the dangers that Iraqi policemen routinely face. As soldiers from the American-led coalition increasingly pull back from the front lines, Iraq's newly reformed police force is moving in, trying to return security to a country that has been threatened by internal chaos. While it isn't clear who is behind the violence--foreign terrorists, loyalists of the former ruling party, a combination of the two--it's certain they have Baghdad's finest in their sights. More than 600 Iraqi cops have been killed since the beginning of the U.S. occupation, the Ministry of Interior estimates...