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...covered like the [soccer] FA Cup now, no other festival is treated that way," says Paul Stokes, news editor of British music weekly the NME. The hippie shindig that became a celebration of counterculture is now as established a fixture on the British social calendar as Wimbledon. When the BBC broadcasts live coverage of the festival over three channels, online and on several radio stations, it's hard to maintain the mystery of alt-cachet. After last year's Glastonbury, Stokes wrote an editorial in the NME saying the atmosphere at the event was suffering as young people sought...
...national colors, swigging half-liter bottles of beer and singing for their team's victory. A half a million Berliners converged on the Brandenburg Gate in the historic center of the old capital to watch the game on giant screens. As in 2006, when Berlin hosted soccer's World Cup, a country not given to displays of national pride (since the Second World War) allowed itself to feel good about being German...
...semi-final of the European Championship, the third biggest sporting event in the world after the Olympics and World Cup, presented special complications, though. Germany played Turkey, which also happens to be the fatherland of Germany's largest minority, a 2.5 million strong community descended from gastarbeiter who were invited to what was then West Germany from Turkey as laborers in the 1960s. For Wednesday night's game, Turkish fans gathered across Germany in neighborhoods like Berlin's Kreuzberg to wave the crimson flag (Turkey itself was awash in red) and root for their team. The Turkish President, Abdullah...
...stranger to big matches, Guards is home to some of the premiere polo events in the world, including the world-renowned Vivari Queen’s Cup...
...French capitulation and Italy's draw sets up a do or die repeat of the 2006 World Cup final between them next Tuesday - certainly without Zinedine Zindane and likely without his foil Marco Materazzi - while the Romanians take on the Dutch, who are through to the next round. A couple of draws and Romania advances...