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When the final match is played this Sunday, the Rose Bowl will be full of enthusiasts even if, as expected, fewer than 3% of the nation's TV sets are tuned in. When the victors and losers jet home next week to their respective adulation and opprobrium, America will be left with baseball, football training camps, a little tennis, a smattering of golf -- and a void. For those who gave it a chance, the World Cup turned out to be a refreshing breather from the standard summer fare. Nothing against harness racing or the fellows who drive steroid-injected cars...
Come next Super Bowl, most Americans will not remember the name of the Brazilian player who elbowed American star Tab Ramos in the head, sending him to the hospital with a concussion. (For future bar bets, it's Leonardo.) But they will remember that Bebeto's and Romario's skills with a soccer ball rival the gifts Michael Jordan brought to basketball. The ball did everything they told...
...touch of the foot and, suddenly, instead of blocking the ball, Andres Escobar propelled it past his own team's goalie and into Colombia's net. The defensive error gave the U.S. soccer team a 1-0 lead, and eventually a surprise 2-1 victory at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on June 22. For Escobar and the heavily favored Colombians, it led to World Cup elimination and, in the early morning hours near Medellin last Saturday, murder...
Fevers are building, temperatures rising. Last week, before 93,194 fans at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the unsung U.S. soccer team defeated mighty but flighty Colombia, 2-1. It was the Americans' first Cup victory since 1950, when a lineup of inspired nobodies stunned the powerhouse English squad, 1-0, in one of the sport's most notorious upsets. The victory over Colombia (following a tense tie with Switzerland) nearly ensures that the U.S. will advance to the second of five rounds in the 24-team bash. It also drew praise for the upstart Yanks from a skeptical...
These are hard times for workers in the world's largest officially communist state. The "iron rice bowl" of guaranteed employment has been broken, and in the past year millions of Chinese from the cash-strapped state sector have been fired, laid off or furloughed at half their salaries. In 1993 in Heilongjiang province alone 2 million workers lost their jobs. Millions of others are being exploited by China's new private entrepreneurs -- overworked, physically abused and paid less than the minimum wage. Working conditions are frequently unsafe; the number of workers killed or injured in mine disasters and industrial...