ABOUT THE FIELDSMARADONA We could not win the World Cup, since no British team had even qualified for the finals in the USA. So the British media decided to restage the glorious Falklands War instead, with the Argentinian captain Diego Maradona cast in th...

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Paul Ⅱ in Rome When in Rome the pope stopped to pray for the Presidents recovery and immediately sent him a personal message with his prayers and hopes. These were worrisome times. It had not been so long before, during a Vatican meeting with an aide to t...

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Standing For Freedom . Madeleing Albright President Clintons key advisers could hardly believe their ears when Madeleine K. Albright put it straight to tough guy Russian Foreign Minister Primakov. Tense negotiations were under way in the State Department ...

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Mike Tyson Waller: I mean it was hard to watch you bite off a piece of the guys ear and spit it out on the 1)ring floor. Tyson: Its hard for me to watch it. You think its hard for you to watch it, you watch it in a joking manner. People watch it in a joki...

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Franklin and Franklin impersonator Every nation has its heroes, of course, If a nation is lucky, it has one who was so able in everything he or she did that the person's legacy stretches in many directions. Michelangelo comes to mind. Well, America has be...

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Shakespeare's Birthday April 23 The actual date of Shakespeare's birth is not known, but, traditionally, April 23, St George's Day, has been Shakespeare's accepted birthday, and a house on Henley Street in Stratford, owned by William's father, John, is ac...

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背景知识： Condi turns her back on dream job CONDOLEEZZA RICE has spent months perfecting a tactic to deflect questions about her long-term political prospects, saying that the post she really covets is that of National Football League commissioner. If that jo...

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First woman White House head chef hired In this photograph provided by the White House, Chef Cristeta 'Cris' Comerford prepares a meal inside the White House kitchen in this July 17, 2002, photo. Kitchen duties may have traditionally been viewed as women'...

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Laila Ali inherits her father's profession There are numerous similarities between Muhammad Ali and his 23-year-old daughter Laila．She accepts them as her genetic legacy．She is the only one of his nine sons and daughters to embrace those genes that led to...

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Back from the Brink 影星与死神擦肩而过 We know Jason Priestley as the handsome young star of the long-running television show Beverly Hills 90210. Last summer, most of us learned he is also a professional race car driver when he was involved in a serious racing ac...

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