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...precious little price for his act among his many corporate sponsors - including Canal Plus, with whom he's long had an exclusive relationship for announcements regarding his career. But with world soccer authority FIFA having opened an investigation into the head-butting incident, and warning Zidane could lose the Golden Ball award sports writers accorded him as the most valuable player in the World Cup, the full impact of his now infamous header may not be fully known for some time still. Zidane's career may well be over, but his exact legacy is still a work in progress...
...Zidane for the head-butt, while 52% say they understand his violent response. Those numbers will probably increase once the exact words Materazzi spoke are known. Meanwhile, even after seeing the head-butt, sports writers voted Zidane the Cup's best player and awarded the Frenchman the tournament's Golden Ball - a superlative their peers denied Zidane in 2001 voting for best pro player in Europe, after he broke a bone in a rival's face with an earlier head-butt...
Freshman Seminar 44i. “The Golden Age of Piracy...
...registrar, seemingly just back from Johnny Depp’s new “Pirates of the Caribbean,” is now offering a new course, “The Golden Age of Piracy,” as a freshman seminar. Pirates take “center stage” and freshmen will get to learn about globalization from the 16th to 18th centuries. Lecturer Mark G. Hanna is no Kiera Knightly, so do try to concentrate, freshmen...
...catastrophe: we end up selecting students through failure, but we don't dare to select them before they enter - that's considered to be antidemocratic. Was it any different when you were a student here in 1968? In 1968 I was 19 years old, and I detested those bourgeois, golden youths breaking their toys, but I just got[an error occurred while processing this directive] on with it. In 1970, I did a masters paper on the wines of the Jura, and I was very young when I finished my Ph.D. the next year, and I thought...