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...public, the passion for the game is as evident at the grass roots where you still see poor kids with improvised equipment playing for hours on end in the dusty streets and city alleyways of Pakistan and India. Driving across Sri Lanka two weeks ago, I saw farmers playing atop the banks dividing their rice paddies. Even Afghanistan has been touched by the contagion: Since the fall of the Taliban in 2002, thousands of returning Afghan refugees who fell in love with the game during their years in Pakistan now play on the rock-hard fields around Kabul...
...oddest-looking suborbital ride, however, is by John Carmack, who is building podlike contraptions that sometimes land on all fours. Sometimes not. The Pixel, made for one, is a platform atop four tanks of fuel (liquid oxygen and ethanol). He's not strapping anyone in yet, right? "Funny you should say that," he says, picking up a motorcycle saddle at his Armadillo Aerospace shop one evening. "It goes on top of the electronic box over here. We did a parking-lot flight a couple of years ago and roughed up one of our earlier vehicles." Not to worry, he says...
...theater's highlight outside of showtime is Uys' collection of apartheid kitsch. "My idea was to create a Disneyland of bad political taste for Evita to preside over," he explains. Atop her piano on her small stage is a bust of former Prime Minister and apartheid architect H.F. Verwoerd that's been made into a lamp. "It used to have a plaque on it that said, 'Let he who gave us darkness, now give us light,' but it fell off," admits Uys. Next door, in the Museum Nauseum, an intimate 80-seat theater, old political posters advise voters...
...built and in 1992 Bartlett showed his first collection. Over the next decade, his fashion shows would become famed as much for their spectacular aspect as for Bartlett’s high-concept clothing. For example, his Fall 1998 show featured a blonde man wearing a green cape, sitting atop a horse. At one fashion show, Bartlett used all black models. Another runway show featured an (impeccably-suited) voodoo priest fondling a live chicken. In 2002, however, Bartlett says he had a fashion crisis. “When I first began, I was very experimental, and I was into creating...
Former head coach Erica Walsh has resigned from her post atop the Harvard women’s soccer team, moving on to head the nationally ranked Penn State women’s program next year. Announced last Thursday by the Nittany Lions Athletic Department, Walsh will become the third coach in the eleven-year history of the Penn State women’s soccer. The U-17 national head coach and Huntington Valley, Pa. native returns home to lead a Nittany Lion squad, which has won nine straight Big Ten titles and, just last year, advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals...