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| Articles about Uphill |
| IPL twenty20 – Kolkata Knight Riders face an uphill task against King XI Punjab | | 2008-05-03 09:17:00 | | One of the favorite team of the tournament who is struggling badly in the mid of IPL after departure of their players like B.McCullum and R.Ponting now face an uphill task against King XI Punjab who are on a roll at the moment. After two initial losses, the Yuvraj Singh-led Kings XI have been on a winning streak and continued to do well despite the exit of top Australian players like Simon
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| | News: Somalia - An Uphill Aid Battle | | 2007-12-24 07:21:00 | | Somalia has had no functioning government since 1991, when rival clan leaders overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other. When an Islamic group took power in parts of the south and the capital last year, the weakened transitional government invited in Ethiopian troops to dislodge the Islamists. The Islamists regrouped with support from Ethiopia's archenemy, Eritrea, and have been fighting an insurgency against the government ever since.Several aid workers have been killed by stray bullets and mortars this year, and the years of fighting have devastated Somalia's infrastructure, making aid delivery difficult and dangerous.Last week, ships coming from Kenya headed not to chaotic Mogadishu but to the nearby port of Merka. All that remains of the disintegrated pier is a series of jagged metal poles biting into the turquoise sea.The rusty wreck of a cargo ship run aground warns the aid ships not to come too close. Instead, a rickety flotilla of small boats sets ou | | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
| | The road to glory turned uphill… | | 2007-05-10 18:52:51 | | It all started out so well… Then things quickly went awry…
We played against the “Davie Jones” team last night. I won my first doubles game and settled into a blissfully ignorant feeling of confidence. Then we also won the second doubles game, and in the third game, my dad upset his opponent with an impressively accurate 91-out. With three games out of nine in the proverbial bag, we were pretty confident that we could actually win this match, despite the fact that Davie Jones is leading the league at the moment…
All good things must come to an end however, and they found their rhythm, taking the next five games from us without breaking a sweat. We came back to win the team game, but too little, too late… We had to settle for a 5-4 loss…
Too many more of these, and it might start to get discouraging…
[Oh, and we lost one of our team-members… Not sure why… But he said he wasn’t going to play anymore… Maybe h | | By: Trouble's Island | | |
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