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...eight national teams are coached by nationals. A Russian manages Laos, while Vietnam has just signed a Portuguese. There's a Serbian in Singapore and a Brazilian in Burma. While Thai players have found it hard to adjust to England, English managers seem to fare better in Thailand. A journalist once asked Peter Withe if he missed home, and his pithy reply said more about globalization than a stack of doctoral theses: "Not really. You can get a pint of Tetley's pretty much anywhere these days." Peter Reid - older, wiser and apparently with expletives depleted - also seems comfortable...
...When I became a government witness, he interviewed me alone and knew the details of my case better than I did. He doesn't rely on a phalanx of aides, although he has them." - Former TIME journalist Matthew Cooper, on being subpoenaed during the Plame investigation (Portfolio, December...
...Afghanistan lost? Four panelists—a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a senior military analyst, a former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., and a professor from New York University—considered this question yesterday as they debated the nation’s state seven years after the U.S.-led invasion. And while they may not have agreed on everything, they did agree on one thing: Afghanistan’s prognosis is not good. Steven Coll, Mark Garlasco, Maleeha Lodhi, and Barnett R. Rubin addressed a packed auditorium yesterday afternoon in a panel discussion moderated by Harvard Kennedy School professor...
...Merkel snub dominated the concluding press conference, Sarkozy reacting angrily to a question from a British journalist about a schism with Merkel. Countries had at their disposal a tool kit of fiscal stimulus options, said Sarkozy, manically shredding a piece of paper as he spoke. "Gordon Brown used the tax tool. The fact that I didn't use the tool doesn't mean we disagree...
President-elect BARACK OBAMA, after nominating Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State, dismissing a journalist's question about political differences...