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...false premise - but he's not to blame. Nor, as it turns out, is anyone else in particular. This was the exquisitely balanced verdict of Robin Butler, Britain's former chief civil servant, whose supple mind, service to five Prime Ministers and intimacy with Whitehall folkways fully earn him the title of mandarin. And so Blair made yet another miraculous escape - wounded, yet still alive for now. Mandarins don't gun down Prime Ministers. In a 160-page report that Blair ordered up in February after President Bush succumbed to pressure for a U.S. inquiry, Butler found no good place...
...really more about the bling-bling,” Thompson said about the ability to earn a larger cadre of groupies in NBA Ballers. “We focused on that game, and why it was E-rated instead of T [for teen] rating...
...major teams are out scouting for talent, but cry injury, or even "retire" to avoid all those tedious qualifiers and friendlies in between. Countries such as South Africa, Australia and Senegal have increasingly recognized this reality, given that most of their natural picks for the national team now earn their living in Europe. They are increasingly adapting their national setups to accommodate the foreign-based players by, for example, holding coaching clinics and friendly matches in Europe, and refraining from calling up the players with major clubs for the less important games on the international schedule...
...Russian and Ukrainian teams play in the pan-European tournaments, offering their imports a platform on which to impress the scouts of clubs in Italy, Spain and Britain, who'll offer a better wage and more benign living conditions. Today's estimates are that around 1,000 African players earn their keep in Europe, a low figure compared with the Brazilian pro Diaspora which is believed to number in the region of 5,000 players. And none of the African players who regularly start for an English Premiership team was recruited directly from Africa - all were bought from other European...
...element of choice in matters national is also epitomized in the case of the brothers Vieri - Christian leads the line for Italy, while his younger brother Max is an emerging star in the Australian national team. The Vieris were born in Italy, and earn their wages there, but they grew up in Australia, making them eligible for either. The less talented Max may simply be accepting his limitations in opting for the "Socceroos," where competition for places on the squad is infinitely less intense than in Italy...