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...When the English soccer team Chelsea took to the field in Moscow on May 21 for the final of UEFA's Champions League, Europe's biggest club competition, its West London roots were all but invisible. A Czech goalie backed up a Portuguese central defender. Players from France and Germany marshaled Chelsea's midfield. The lone striker was from Ivory Coast. In all, of the 11 players who kicked off that game at the Luzhniki Stadium, only four were English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 'Foreigner' Quota for Soccer? | 5/30/2008 | See Source »

...impact of such restrictions would be huge: fewer than one in five line-ups taking to the pitch in last season's English Premier League would have complied with the proposed limits. Arsenal, Chelsea's crosstown rivals from North London, regularly fields an all-foreign team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 'Foreigner' Quota for Soccer? | 5/30/2008 | See Source »

...Passage). Only one U.S. picture was fêted: Benicio Del Toro was named Best Actor for his role as Ernesto Guevara in Che, directed by Steven Soderbergh. The movie's dialogue is almost entirely in Spanish, which means that, for the second year in a row, no English-language film took home any of the main jury's prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Wrap at Cannes | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...report on the first-year experience released to the student body today, the College's administration shared some of its newfound knowledge: students do not like Expository Writing 20; teaching fellows who do not speak English are detrimental to learning; students often have rooming disputes, exacerbated by cramped housing; and many students are dissatisfied with their social lives...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: First Year Report States the Obvious | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...lack of evidence and the denials have hardly diminished the Indian media's obsession with the police's sensational theory. Cameras have been following the Talwars and the Durranis everywhere. The English-language daily Hindustan Times ran a profile of Dr. Talwar called "How Dr Jekyll Turned Mr Hyde." Appeals by the Talwar and Durrani families to respect their privacy have made no difference. Personal family video has been aired on television. It is the kind of frenzy Western audiences have gotten used to since the still-unsolved JonBenet Ramsey case in the U.S. more than a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's JonBenet Ramsey Case? | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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