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With the dramatic end of the 2006 World Cup, fans around the globe emerged from a month of shattering defeats and exhilarating victories. Readers cheered the host nation, grappled with a certain star's confounding use of his head and made decisive calls on how to improve the role of...
France and the U.S. are currently butting heads over the sequencing of a peace process - Lebanon's view, requiring a deal with Hizballah as a precondition for deployment, appears to be closer to that of France - and the outcome of that debate may be dictated by events on the battlefield...
SUSPENDED. Zinédine Zidane, 34, retired captain of France's soccer team; for three games, for head butting Italy's Marco Materazzi in the chest during the World Cup final in Berlin, which Italy won; by FIFA, soccer's governing body; in Zurich. Materazzi, who Zidane said provoked him repeatedly...
Hammer, Collins argues, was "perhaps the first widely popular antihero: a good guy who used the methods of the bad guy in pursuit of frontier justice, a vigilante who spared the courts the trouble of a trial by executing the villain himself." The jolt this character gave to literature, by...
It was the cheap shot seen round the world--French star Zinédine Zidane head-butted Marco Materazzi of Italy in the last minutes of the World Cup final. (Zidane says Materazzi insulted his mom and sister.) Most sports ban head-butting, but there have been extraordinary examples.