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...reputation for being a dangerous disgrace. When some of them rioted at the 1985 European final in Brussels, 38 fans of the Italian team Juventus were killed. It would be five years before English teams were allowed to play again in European competitions. Back home, aging stadiums offered neither comfort nor safety; in 1989, 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death on an over-crowded terrace at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. Financially, too, the game was a mess. Most top-flight team owners poured money into their local team in the hope of boosting their social standing...
...more specifically, Abe's stance on the tens of thousands of women in occupied countries forced to serve as sex slaves to the Japanese military during World War II. Partly in response to a draft U.S. congressional resolution urging Tokyo to issue a full and clear apology to the "comfort women," Abe in March denied that the Japanese government had been directly involved in forcing the women into prostitution. Though the Prime Minister later expressed his personal sympathy for the women, his statements caused anger in Asia and the U.S. And with Amnesty International planning to hold a rally near...
...Increasingly across Iraq, U.S. forces are leaving the comfort and safety of their fortified mega-bases and establishing small combat outposts and patrol bases like the one insurgents struck outside Baquba that left 20 soldiers wounded as well. Some patrol bases are well protected with blast walls and large numbers of troops. Others are little more than abandoned houses that a few platoons circle with Humvees while hunkering down inside. As a reporter frequently embedded with U.S. forces, I've visited many such patrol bases, and the sense of vulnerability at them is all too palpable. The paratroopers tasked with...
...Mail.” However, Ryan does do a surprisingly solid job when it comes to the more heart-wrenching scenes. The day before she undergoes a mastectomy, Ryan transforms from calm worry to desperate hopelessness while she sits in the rain, ultimately exchanging a passionate comfort kiss with Brody.Brody, like Ryan, shows us nothing new. He’s still that loveable not-so-nerdy-looking nerd who’s quick with the one-liners.However, he fails to bring the necessary depth to a character who’s meant to acutely affect the lives of the women...
...climate change time. Rudd's approach on global warming is to flay Howard for being a skeptic; any government action taken, Labor claims, is insincere, inadequate or too late. Rudd is on a climate-change crusade. It's the area where he is moving out of the centrist comfort zone with risky populism. If elected, Rudd is proposing to achieve a 60% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Risky populism is becoming the backbeat to Doing a Kevin. Rudd is chasing a younger crowd through appearances on puerile FM radio shows. One of the medium's luminaries, Jackie...