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...revenues they generate and the conduits they provide into lucrative European competitions. All one can do is to try and mitigate some of the more obvious excesses. Down at the bedrock level of the bogus injury and the attempt to get one's opponent sent off, a yet more eyes-wide-open cynicism occasionally prevails. Of course players dived for penalties, the former England international footballer Ian Wright said recently. "So why don't we? It will happen to us again, so we should." Happily, this kind of attitude has a corrective. It can sometimes be found in sportsmen themselves...
Family members describe Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi as tall for her age, skinny, but not eye-catchingly beautiful. As one of her uncles put it, "She was an ordinary girl." So perhaps it was sheer proximity that made the 15-year-old so tantalizing. Her house was less than 1,000 ft. from a U.S. military checkpoint just outside the Iraqi town of Mahmudiyah, and soldiers manning the gate started stopping by just to look at her. Her mother, who grew concerned enough to make plans for Abeer to move in with a cousin, told relatives that whenever...
...powerful and oft-cited speech to his fellow Cardinals. In the 15 months since, the pontiff?s fierce intellect and clear ideas on repairing Catholicism's troubles on its home continent have turned him into a sort of anti-Zapatero. And he has, indeed, kept a close eye on Spain. When he welcomed the newly appointed Spanish ambassador to the Holy See on May 20, Benedict went beyond the typical diplomatic niceties, alluding to gay marriage, abortion and the right to a Catholic education...
This is the final article in a four part series. Part 1: For Harvard, Luring Students Is All in the Brand Part 2: Recruiting a New Elite Part 3: Byerly's Eye On the Yard
...Sparrow? Of course we do. He worked up something strange and lovely for this character in the first Pirates of the Caribbean three years ago, and he?s deliriously at it again in the new sequel, subtitled Dead Man?s Chest. It is not just a matter of his eye makeup or his funny way of walking, running or (sometimes) sitting still - as when he discovers, to his dismay, that the cannibals have decided to make him the centerpiece of their banquet. It goes deeper than that: Jack is a modernist, unaccountably obliged to the mindless heroics not only...