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...world's game, basketball remains a distant second to soccer, which has fans in almost every country, totaling more than 1.25 billion. But there's no denying that basketball's appeal is on the rise, especially among younger, urban and middle-class fans. Like soccer, basketball is a relatively cheap game and easy to start playing. It requires only a ball and a makeshift hoop hung on a tree or the side of a house. In Mexico, there is scarcely a town that doesn't have at least one court, and even in impoverished Nigeria, many homes have...
...having brought disrespect (and violence) on ourselves by behaving in a manner as “crass and libidinous” as our male counterparts. I feel my heart beat faster and my skin begin to tingle at this bit of warmed-over anti-feminism from a not-so-distant past (that of Wendy Shalit and A Return to Modesty), and I look around the dining hall to see others with their jaws agape, gasping for breath and possibly drooling because of a publication produced with shameless gusto by women who love to shock and provoke. There must...
...Congress to federal enforcement agencies. If the guys happen to be “innocent,” they can just head home (shipped in shackles to Islamabad) or just wait until this whole thing blows over. Appeals to due process are a relic of the still more distant past...
...received a letter from a group of students in Tulsa, Oklahoma that “just made us feel that somehow that magazine had a purpose for a lot of people—not that we didn’t know that from earlier correspondance, but somehow, from far, distant Oklahoma, as Americans responding to an injury that really happened to the whole country…the response gave us a sense that here we are, and this is what we’re about...
BAGHDAD—March 13, 2015. With Saddam Hussein a distant memory and the one year anniversary of Iraq’s liberation from the occupying forces approaching, the new democratic president has asked the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to join him in a celebration of the Iraqi independence...