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...more than 10,000 players. And the Midwest Unconventional Sports Association has 230 teams with about 3,700 players in five cities. For those who can't remember, kickball is played much like baseball--only you kick the ball rather than hit it with a bat. The teams generally consist of 10 or 11 players each (men and women), and the game lasts for five to seven innings, depending on the league. Expertise isn't required. "I am totally not athletically inclined," says Jennifer Wendt, 27, a Minneapolis marketing manager and enthusiastic kickball player. "But kids can play...
...often painful. We came because those same tour guides gestured towards Adams and Lowell Houses, and told us that at Harvard, dorm rooms had fireplaces. They did not tell us—they could not know—that the fires we built in them would one day consist of sheets of cellophane, crackling in unconvincing imitation of the real thing...
...younger linebackers consist of juniors Ray Hill and Sean Tracy and sophomore Gary Garcia, who all should see playing time this season. Though Murphy admits that depth may be a problem if the injury bug hits, the back-ups hope to provide a spark if called upon...
...trappings of a failed state are few. Liberian President Charles Taylor announced his resignation in a small, stuffy auditorium in the executive mansion, where the curtains consist of cheap red velvet and the chairs are painted gold. The mirrors on the pillars were dirty and paint-speckled, and the microphone volume waxed and waned. The traditional venue for state ceremonies, the Centennial Memorial Pavilion, lay too close to the front line. Until a last week, mortar shells had been falling all around...
...journalist in Munich. "It's a short escape and it's not really dangerous." For a pointless act, mobs have created a fair amount of serious analysis. Howard Rheingold, author of a 2002 book called Smart Mobs, thinks mobs are the newest form of social protest. "Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they don't know each other," writes Rheingold. Smart mobs have, he says, done things like help topple Philippine President Joseph Estrada. Do flash mobs have similar aspirations? Not according to Bill. "I'm a political person," he says...