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...been infuriated by "scandalous incidents that occurred at the Stade de France" and had summoned the head of the nation's soccer federation for a carpeting. Sarkozy's biggest complaint: that official's failed to simply cancel Tuesday's match after the anthem was jeered ahead of the kick-off - a move that would have sent 60,000 well-behaved fans packing simply because a tiny minority had decided to push the patriotic buttons of France's leaders. From now on, however, France's players are under orders to take their ball and go home at the first sound...
Burns discussed and showed clips from his new film “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” Friday in Sanders Theater to kick-off Harvard’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of Roosevelt’s birth. Rossevelt graduated from the College...
...aspects of running the club - both on and off the field - by voting in online polls for player transfers, team selection and tactics. Starting line-ups are decided and passed to the coach in good time for match day but not revealed on the website till an hour before kick...
...students, alumni, and guests assembled in Memorial Church to hear Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, give the inaugural “Robert Coles ‘Call of Service’” Lecture. The event was the kick-off to the first Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Alumni Weekend. PBHA President Angelico N. A. Razon ’08 said the alumni weekend and Coles lecture will become annual events. In her lecture, Edelman shared statistics regarding the condition of children in America, including the fact that a child...
...clouds burst, the crowds gather. It's an hour before the kick-off of Kolkata's biggest sporting event and the rain keeps pouring. The pitch at the cavernous Salt Lake Stadium is now little better than a mud pit, pockmarked by spreading pools of brackish water and streaks of brown slush. Were this a cricket match, officials would have canceled proceedings and sent fans home. But this is football in the most football-crazy city in India: over 100,000 boisterous Calcuttans fill the divided sides of the stadium, one half festooned in the maroon and green of Mohun...