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...each other, laughing wildly on the sidewalk; their cars parked in a line that stretches from one side of the Tigris River to the other. In a country now in its fifth year of war, the sight may be unexpected. But perhaps more startling is what they're drinking: beer. Local residents say that sort of activity hasn't occurred here in public since the first year of the war - now looked upon nostalgically as the year before life really...
...week ago, a car bomb hit Harithiya, the same neighborhood where tonight the boys played soccer. The young men drinking beer on the Jadriya bridge were targeted in 2004 by religious extremists. Now they're back, but their presence is less an indication of improved safety than it is of the fatalistic attitudes now so prevalent among Iraq's youth, says one resident...
...drama of the game got a boost when powerful electrical storms knocked out broadcasts for more than six minutes during the second half across most of Central Europe. In Berlin, fans at a Kreuzberg beer garden where both Turks and Germans had gathered to watch the game on an outdoor screen huddled around their mobile phones to follow the game on the tiny radios...
...whistle blew. For the better part of a week, German black, red and gold flags sprouted from car windows, clothes lines, window sills right across Germany. In Berlin, the schnell-bahn rapid transit line was taken over by chanting fans, draped in national colors, swigging half-liter bottles of beer and singing for their team's victory. A half a million Berliners converged on the Brandenburg Gate in the historic center of the old capital to watch the game on giant screens. As in 2006, when Berlin hosted soccer's World Cup, a country not given to displays of national...
...local charity last year alone. Tours of the brewery are among the city's most popular tourist attractions, and every year hundreds of thousands of visitors enjoy the grounds of the family's estate, Grant's Farm, where children ogle the exotic menagerie while their parents sip free beer...