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...Madrid starting lineup and in England's national squad, and Real had announced they would not renew his contract in the summer. Indeed, skeptics have long suggested that Real had signed Beckham from Manchester in the first place less for his on-field ability than for his global glamour-icon status, which would help the team sell replica gear all over the world. To be fair, Beckham earned his keep as a rather talented right-sided midfielder capable of providing pinpoint crosses to his forwards, and with an ability to bend free kicks around or over defensive walls that...
...right, so it's pretty. Now pick it up and make a call. A big friendly icon appears on that huge screen. Say a second call comes in while you're talking. Another icon appears. Tap that second icon and you switch to the second call. Tap the big "merge calls" icon and you've got a three-way conference call. Pleasantly simple...
...players are black." That echoed a comment a year earlier by philosopher Alain Finkelkraut, who - seeking to explain the 2005 rioting by youths descended from immigrants in France's suburbs - made allusion to France's "white-black-Arab" soccer side that won the 1998 World Cup and became an icon of French social integration. " Today, [the team is] black-black-black, and it's the laughingstock of Europe," Finkelkraut complained...
...cinematic visionary, it's only appropriate that George Miller is talking about sight: his own (those Le Corbusier-style specs are not only a style icon; more importantly for a man who spends much of his time writing and reading scripts, they're multifocals) and that of horses. When he learns from Time's photographer that equine eyesight moves constantly between monocular and binocular vision, the ever-affable and ultra-curious Miller moves forward in his chair: "So depending on which part of the eye they look out of they can see close or far away? That's amazing...
...family of a prominent Ukrainian icon has donated to Harvard a collection of almost 900 maps thought to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the University announced this week. Bohdan Krawciw, who died in 1975, was an activist for Ukrainian independence, as well as a poet, translator, journalist, and to top it all off, a collector of maps of Ukraine. Marika L. Whaley, the publications manager at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), described the collection as “monumental.” “I don’t know how this guy had the spare...