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...UNITED STATES OF AMERIca and I -- managed to get the World Cup kicked off all right last Friday in Chicago. Bolivia, grateful just to be in competition on the tepid shores of Lake Michigan, kept the Cup-holding Germans to a single goal before a crowd of 63,117 gathered in a great, poured-concrete tureen called Soldier Field. At the half, the temperature broke upon your cheek, hot enough for the back of a wristwatch to singe, and I, the only blue eye among distinguished Asian bleacher mates, remarked that someone could stir us and call us shabu-shabu...
...Bolivians had not been in Cup play since 1950, had not been in these finals before that since 1930, had never even scored in the World Cup, much less won a game, and I had never seen a soccer game, so Bolivia was easy to cheer. The Germans won the Cup in 1990, came in second in 1986 and 1982 and had every right to feel superior. Any old dilettante could see that they played better, with more control, even though this dilettante couldn't find excuse enough to use such sportswriterly terms as teutonic wedge and the like...
Sammell's thesis is on the societalimplications of consuming llama meat in La Paz,Bolivia. She is studying the class structure andurban mythology surrounding the dish, she says,which is only eaten by the lower classes...
Martin Escobari '94, native of Bolivia, resident of Winthrop House, and concentrator in economics, has reason to smile...
Sammells spent her summer in La Paz, Bolivia, where she researched middle-class attitudes towards eating llama meat...