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As Real Madrid marketing chief Jose Angel Sanchez told British writer Martin Jacques, recently, "Eventually, you may get just six global brand leaders. People will support a local side and one of the world's big six. We have to position ourselves for that." Jacques goes further than Foer in...
Jacques sees the increasingly diverse national teams as a powerful symbol of soccer's liberal and progressive potential, but he envisages growing competition between club and nation as the organizing principle of the game. Just as corporations today stain against national boundaries and their attendant responsibilities as they drive towards...
NATO responds with an offer of a small number of troops to be sent around September. Karzai pleads for a more immediate deployment. Britain and the U.S. request deployment of NATO's new rapid-reaction force created precisely for such contingencies. France's President Jacques Chirac vetoes it, saying the...
"It is as if I were to tell the United States how it should conduct its relations with Mexico." FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, on President Bush's call for Turkey to be admitted to the European Union
government agencies would submit requests for increased funding, which would then become the focus of a tough debate inside the government and in parliament. Almost inevitably, the budget would grow from its initial projections, and no ministry or department had an incentive to reduce spending. Under the new procedure, the...