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...will never tether yourself to an eternally hopeless bottom-dwelling club - unless that's your masochistic bent. You can pick a club that squares with your identity - be it gritty and hardworking, or champagne flash. This was, indeed, a beautiful freedom ? until this month. I had adopted two European clubs as my own, watched their games every weekend, wasted work hours reading blogs about them, emotionally invested myself in their travails. But now my two beloved teams, Barcelona and Arsenal, must play each other in the final of the uefa Champions League in Paris this week. What glory! What pain...
...Bull New York, is building a stadium in Harrison, N.J., 12 miles from midtown Manhattan, that epitomizes MLS's effort to be a major minor sport in America. Or a minor major one. The 25,000-capacity, two-tiered Red Bull stadium is designed to deliver a more European feel to the customers, which can't be done when 15,000 fans--a typical MLS crowd--get lost in a 70,000-seat U.S. football stadium. The Harrison arena will be one of eight new stadiums, including the Home Depot Center, Pizza Hut Park in Dallas and the $100 million...
...scoring in the boardroom, though, MLS still has some problems on the pitch. Although the level of play has risen dramatically, it's no match for élite European leagues--and Americans clearly expect the best. The way the league is managed, each MLS team has a $2 million salary cap. You can't buy a star with that kind of money. So the league is planning to allow each team to sign one marquee player, a designated star, who won't count against the salary cap. "Our long-term goal is to be one of the world's best...
...town conferences.“We are talking about small amounts of money, but major reduction of the comfort level and demoralization,†P. Oktor Skjaervo, the chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, wrote in an e-mail.And the Gunzburg Center for European Studies had to reduce spending by 20 percent last year, according to its director, Peter A. Hall. In so doing, the center eliminated an annual graduate student conference and cut back on the workshops and post-doctoral fellowships it sponsored, said Hall, who is the Krupp Foundation professor of European studies...
...Rather than seeing himself as inherently aligned with the West, Putin is willing to challenge the U.S. on issues ranging from Iran to Hamas. Nor is Russia's reluctance to support the U.S.-European strategy of threatening sanctions against Iran simply a byproduct of narrow concerns over its own investments there. Instead, it reflects a view that U.S. influence is inimical to Moscow's own interests, particularly in the former Soviet states. Curbing that influence has become a goal in and of itself - though aligning with Iran, another powerful oil producer, substantially increases Russia's potential influence, particularly in Asia...