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...event in the world comes close to matching the spirit of the World Cup. The Olympics may garner the attention of more global leaders and media outlets, but its myriad competitions and choreographed pageantry can never generate the unifying, almost cosmic passion that envelops the World Cup. As David Goldblatt asks in his definitive history of soccer, The Ball Is Round, "Is there any cultural practice more global than football?" It has more followers than any one religion and is more universal than any one language. Even Americans - some of whom still sniff at the sport's low-scoring games...
...rights (company policy is not to comment on such issues, Lusby says) - respectable by the standards of international best sellers but an out and out record for China. Lusby believes it will prove a commercial hit, and on the face of it Wolf Totem - rendered by renowned translator Howard Goldblatt - seems to be the kind of bildungsroman that many could relate to, telling of how boy becomes man, and touching on themes of environmental degradation and the conflict between tradition and modernity. Based on Jiang's experiences as a student volunteer living with nomadic Mongol herders in the 1960s...
...said. “It just got lifted up high, sort of surprising everyone.” That lead, however, would prove to be short-lived as senior midfielder Jane Sackovich capitalized on a penalty corner, taking a pass from McDavitt and ripping a shot past Cornell goalie Lizzie Goldblatt to tie the score 1-1 at 41:00. “The insert on the penalty corner was actually a little off,” McDavitt said. “Jane made a great play adjusting to it and had an awesome shot.” But despite...
...acquired one of its own. Written a decade ago, the book was at first banned over concerns that the Republican side in the Chinese civil war gets off too gently, but later became a best seller. The original has been trimmed considerably by the respected American translator Howard Goldblatt, though it's still a monster, with scores of characters and more action than an Indiana Jones movie. "You can skip my other novels, but you must read Big Breasts and Wide Hips," Goldblatt quotes the author as saying. "In it I wrote about history, war, politics, hunger, religion, love...
After he’s spent about 30 minutes working the phones, Romney staffer Lydia Goldblatt sails into the office, untangling a computer cord with her hands...