And the 28-year-old is doing everything he can to achieve the country's dream of being accepted at the top levels of cricket.
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The conflict, which left more than two million people dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, forced Ajak to flee his country when he was just five years old.
The 39-year-old from Guatemala says he's been in the country illegally for four years.
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More than 130 years after he was hanged, Australia's most notorious outlaw is being buried, as old tensions resurface about what he really means to the country.
But the 30-year-old Leinster star knows that if he can inspire his country to their first Six Nations success since 1985, an extra reward could be a call to arms from McGeechan.
Now 61, he is not old, but may be too elderly for a country whose youth are switching off politics in droves.
He felt that those old enough to risk their lives for their country were old enough to have a voice in its elections.
Self-employed electrician Tony Levy from Wednesfield in the Black Country says that at 61 he's too old to be employed but too young to retire.
The attack also comes less than a week after President Pervez Musharraf lifted a six-week-old state of emergency he said was necessary to ensure the country's stability but that critics said was a move to stifle the country's judiciary, curb the media and secure more power.
But if an artist wants to have a true No. 1 smash across the country, he or she will have to resort to some old-fashioned methods, Mooney said.
Mr. Witkovsky's tightly argued catalog essay strengthens his reputation as one of the country's ablest younger curators (he is only 44 years old).
Cox, who says he is an "anglophile", has had enough of "Old Etonians running the country".
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The 18-year-old opened his Welsh goal account when his country needed him most as he hooked home in the 83rd minute at the Millennium Stadium.
He was just 13 years old and had spent most of his childhood moving from one country to the next with his mother Zinaida, Trotsky's daughter, seeking refuge from Stalin's persecution.
The 40-year-old filmmaker said that Saberi was planning to leave the country, but he kept her from leaving until his latest film -- which will be shown at this year's Cannes film festival -- was completed.
"He needs to consider how the country perceives the process and the winner, " says an old friend.
"It's such a big place, anything could happen, " said Liu Wenbing, a 19-year-old worker who left school when he was 13 to take up jobs fixing cars around the country.
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He continued that he believes the country is in a mess, that Hillary Clinton is too much the "same old, same old, " and that it's time to move on with Obama.
Many people across the country cherish letters he wrote in his own hand to family members on important occasions, to old friends dealing with sickness and loss, to strangers with questions about his days in Hollywood.
His last defeat at the Monte Carlo Country Club came as a 16-year-old against Guillermo Coria in 2003, and he has lost only six career matches out of 164 on his favored clay surface.
Ricky Engel, a 16-year-old from Grosse Pointe, wasn't so lucky when he was playing a round of golf at a local country club, and drove his cart under a tree, usually a hot spot for the flies.
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