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...times a team is aired and its final league position. The result: the top club pockets almost twice the amount that the bottom team does - and only the top few clubs access money-spinning European club competition the following season. In the U.S. there are mechanisms such as salary caps in place to ensure a competitive balance, but there's no sign of anything like that in the Premiership. "What we have is almost like a two-tier league structure," says Birkbeck's Chadwick: "Those that can win the Premier League, and those that won't." That may not matter...
...thousands of victims of Darfur, hope is nearly extinguished. In Touloum, I meet a filthy young man in rags, distractedly unpicking the threads of a knitted woolen cap. Diar, the camp chief, introduces him as Abdoolcarim Abdur, or "Adam." Diar says Adam, 22, saw his entire family cut down in front of him in 2004, and--as has happened to 40% of Darfur's survivors, according to Médecins Sans Frontières--something snapped. Adam became alternately petrified and violent, convinced that another Janjaweed onslaught was imminent. Afraid of his outbursts, his fellow refugees carried him to Chad tied...
Will there come a day, graduating senior Anthony Della Calce wonders, when people see him proudly wearing a Virginia Tech cap without immediately thinking of death and sorrow...
...It’s a brilliant idea—let’s make political commentary through fashion,†says Gunawan, a co-producer of “Identities,†dressed in a knit cap and argyle green and crimson sweater—nothing but the most fashionable for the man voted Mr. Eleganza. “But when you think about it, it’s like ‘Oh god, what am I going...
Next up was freshman right fielder Jennifer Francis, who blooped the ball into center field for a two-run single to cap the scoring in the game...