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...Major League Soccer (MLS) sank its cleats into the U.S. sports scene as an upstart 10-team league in a nation weaned on a different type of football. But MLS has steadily grown since its inception, and on March 18, the league announced it would award its 17th franchise to Vancouver, which in 2011 will become the second Canadian city to field a club. With its 14th campaign about to kick off, TIME spoke to Commissioner Don Garber about the league's growth, its goals, and its most famous player, David Beckham...
...factor in enacting the legislative agendas of presidents from Roosevelt through Bush Sr. The filibuster has only entered into wide usage in the last 15 years, beginning in Bill Clinton’s first term, when Republicans filibustered 32 times during the 103rd Congress. That number has grown steadily since, thanks to both Republicans and Democrats. The latest Congress filibustered 112 times, 51 of which were successful. The institutionalization of the filibuster is perhaps the premier bipartisan accomplishment of the last two decades, even as it is obviously a product of the hyper-partisanship of this epoch...
...hard to believe but, as in many nations, the domestic front matters more to Iranians than the phantom menace of Israel and the U.S. Iran's economy is crippled by debt and inflation and a government that has grown moribund and ineffectual. That is the real situation with which Iranians contend. Soraya Sharif, Melbourne...
...energy cast gives themselves over to the audience for two full hours as they weave humor, sincerity, and passion into a solemn exposé of the complex male-to-male interactions often imagined to exist at all-boys school. As the college entrance exam draws near, hearts are broken, grown men humiliated, and the unspoken code of conduct and silence is shattered, spewing all secrets right out onto the stage floor.—Staff writer Noel A. Barlow can be reached at nbarlow@fas.harvard.edu...
...friend in Rangoon is a busy man. He manages a couple of companies in Burma's commercial capital, helps raise his children and regularly makes merit at a Buddhist temple. He also spends time tending to a plant that he knows is only grown to die. In Dec. 2005, Burma's economically inept junta - one of its leaders once decided to denominate the national currency by multiples of nine because he liked the number - decided that the country's future lay in a shrub called jatropha...