11.   The big showdown.

12.   The big showdown is fought on a barnful of tall ladders that balance like seesaws on a wooden beam running down the length of the structure.

13.   Trouble was, when the big showdown came, Alexei Yagudin was too good, two times.

14.   Like the heavyweight title fight a day later between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis, the Argentina-England match has all the ingredients of a big hitting showdown.

15.   But the dozens of men and women in this cornerhk Wablus are persuaded the hour is at hand for their big showdown with Israel.