Pieter van den Hoogenband&#39;s name may be too long, but he&#39;s compelling
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Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands missed qualifying for the semis in the 50 freestyle this morning, and the world&#39;s headline writers heaved a sigh of relief. When the Flying Dutchman was beaten by Australia&#39;s Ian Thorpe in the 200 freestyle on ...
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Ruud van Nistelrooy&#39;s reward for the four-goal display that got Manchester United&#39;s Champions League campaign back on track was a suggestion from his manager that the Dutchman now deserved to be bracketed alongside Europe&#39;s all-time greats.
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Ruud van Nistelrooy put his domestic suspension to one side with four goals in the Champions League. An awful backpass from Jiri Homola put the striker through for his first and he made it two from the penalty spot after a foul on Paul Scholes.
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He was commonly known as &quot;Alexander the Great,&quot; but Oliver Stone&#39;s epic drama Alexander sure isn&#39;t. It&#39;s large and it&#39;s charged - and it short-circuits because of unachieved ambitions and grim bombast.
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The trial of one brave journalist in Indonesia has implications far beyond the courtroom in Jakarta. By the time this article appears, the Central Jakarta District Court is due
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Perhaps perspective can be gained from the case of another controversial historical figure.
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It also means he&#39;ll have to be in top form right away. This year&#39;s race,. lure of the world&#39;s biggest cycling race is tough to resist.
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One of the best events in sports is happening this weekend, but I&#39;d be surprised if many of you know about it because I&#39;m not talking about a marquee college football matchup or the Yankees-Red Sox series.
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This is a mirage or a sight to behold. This is something you can&#39;t trust with your own eyes, or maybe what you&#39;re watching is real.
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Jose Mourinho&#39;s Second Coming was not meant to be this way. The man who recently described himself as a &#39;God&#39; in Porto has been transformed in some people&#39;seyes to the Devil Incarnate.
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he&#39;s the tallest, most solidly-built player in international cricket at the moment. The next thing that gets your attention
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The Dutch conductor Ton Koopman spent last week presiding over a choral workshop quite different from those the great choral conductor Robert Shaw used to lead.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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At first sight there might not be too much in common between this week&#39;s decision by the International Cricket Council to overturn Sourav Ganguly&#39;s two-match ban and the shenanigans surrounding England and their tour of Zimbabwe.
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There comes the moment in the career of many directors when they are compelled to tell the story of a great man in whose life they seem to see a glimmer of their own image.
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He talks about playing cricket in India with passion. In the same vein, he also speaks about India&#39;s cricket fans. That&#39;s because the spectators, who wait in the aisles, at the doorsteps of stadiums, to catch
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Paul Newman has been  around so long and is so extended as a personality -- we see  him most frequently on salad-dressing labels -- that there&#39;s a  danger of forgetting his genius.