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BILL GATES' SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia, California. Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Rule 1: Life is not fair -- get used to it! Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burge

From Admore Tshuma in LONDON, England ONE of Zimbabwe's most promising and upcoming soccer prodigies is teenage defender Farai Hallam, based in England. Those who have seen Farai play have likened him with the late powerful Highlanders and national team defender, Mercedes "Rambo" Sibanda or Joel Shambo (both late). Among Zimbabwe football lovers, the mention of these soccer heroes' names evoke memories of the country's Dream Team - that almost qualified for the World Cup under German Coach Reinhard Fabish. The Dream Team, as it was affectionately known, contained the likes of former Coventry City striker Peter Ndlovu, Mercedes Sibanda, Norman Mapeza, the late Benjamin Nkonjera and so on. Farai seem to be retracing the footsteps of our football greats - Peter Ndlovu went on to be described as the "African George Best" as he became a phenomenon in English Premiership during the 1990s. Zimbabwe should be blessed to have talents like Farai itching to play

Written by Farayi Machamire,  HARARE -  Not since the Black brothers, Byron and Wayne, has a young tennis player generated so much excitement. Rising tennis star, Innocent Mhere has been a house on fire on the local scene, sweeping everything that has been on offer this year. The Under-18 national top seed successfully defended the Under-18 Manicaland Junior Tennis Open for the second time on the trot. The gifted tennis player went on to win the Mashonaland Junior Open, the New Winners Junior tournament, the Mantas Junior Open, the Zimbabwe Junior Closed tourney and the Cee Cees Graphtec junior tennis tournament. His harvest of accolades left a trail of destruction and left the country’s tennis enthusiasts stirred with hope of a star in the making. Mhere has virtually pushed all the other young tennis players into the shade with his explosive run in this year’s tennis tournaments. He reckons his performance at the Zimbabwe Open in December last year was his most memorable tenn