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...with long periods of passing the ball back and forth. Unless FIFA takes action to improve the flow of the game-for instance, reducing the number of players to nine or 10-I certainly will not be among those who view the next series in 2010. Jeff Lederer Kfar Hess, Israel...
...with long periods of passing the ball back and forth. Unless FIFA takes action to improve the flow of the game - for instance, reducing the number of players to nine or 10 - I certainly will not be among those who view the next series in 2010. Jeff Lederer Kfar Hess, Israel Germany was a first-rate host of the World Cup and made all nations welcome. The police did a magnificent job handling vast crowds of rowdy fans and dealing with the unruly element with as little fuss as possible, so the majority could get on with their enjoyment...
...Anthony Marreco, 90, British barrister and human-rights campaigner; in England. In 1945, Marreco was recruited to the small British legal team prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. During his year at the trial, Marreco became acquainted with the surviving Nazi leaders-including Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess-and was stunned by the weak defenses they offered for their terrible crimes. In the 1960s, Marreco helped found Amnesty International, and in 1968 published a scathing report for the organization on the maltreatment of political prisoners by Greece's military junta...
...plan to make movies fun. Nacho Libre is the first production by Black and White's Black & White Films--"and it's kind of a model of what we want to do," says Black. The movie came about because Black and White loved Napoleon Dynamite, so they called director Hess to see if he wanted to hang out. "There are a lot of people with unique voices out there," says Black. "Mike is a pretty unique writer, and I've got my thing going on, so let's cut out all the lame guys...
...Hess, 26, didn't have an idea for a movie, but after some record shopping and pizza he mentioned a fascination with the life of a Mexican priest named Fray Tormenta. (Yes, Nacho Libre is based on a true story.) Black said, "Dude, I'm in." "We didn't have a script or anything," says Hess, "but he was confident we'd come up with something good." Hess, who co-wrote the film with his wife Jerusha and Mike White, had never worked with a celebrity before, and when it came time to shoot, "I kind of beat around...