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Hundreds of thousands of fans began their pilgrimage to Germany last week for the WORLD CUP. As the 1978 Argentina tournament showed, football is only part of the spectacle...
...Splenda, the sugar substitute in the bright yellow packets. To the customer, it was tantamount to betrayal. "Are you very sure?" he asked, offering to settle for Equal or Sweet'n Low. But all that was left was sugar. The man shook his head (sugar!), pushed his cup back across the counter and demanded a refund...
...bombing, that's not much of a contest. This may explain why public reaction to the Marty report has been relatively muted. Despite Spain's prominent role in the report, for example, only one of its national newspapers put the story on Page One. In Germany, the World Cup trumps just about anything. That's too bad. It could be productive to discuss publicly what is and isn't appropriate for U.S.-European cooperation. Is silent acquiescence in U.S.-directed torture the price that Europe must pay for cooperation with the war on terror? Or could Europe treat U.S. intelligence...
...take a moment to thank the city of Wurzburg, Germany, for improving the lives of so many people around the world. No, this Bavarian hamlet of 130,000 isn't home to BMW, or host of a World Cup soccer match over the next month. But in 1895, a University of Wurzburg physicist named Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a form of electromagnetic radiation called the X ray, helping millions upon millions of sickened, frustrated patients cure what ails them. And over a century later, the city produced a blond, shaggy, 7-foot jump shooter named Dirk Nowitzki, helping countless sickened, frustrated...
...said his father, Paul F. Gilligan, Jr. In high school, Gilligan received 10 varsity letters and won All-State honors in soccer. At Harvard, he was an avid participant in intramural (IM) athletics. In Eliot, Gilligan was IM secretary and led his House to the Straus Cup in 2004—the first time Eliot won the House IM championship since 1983. He also led his House to the Agassiz Cup for IM crew in 2004. That same year, Gilligan received the first-ever IM Athlete of the Year Award. While they admired his achievements in academics and athletics, friends...