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...million kids scuffed their elbows. The best parks give you the impression that layers of urban and suburban memory have been compressed into rolling seabeds. The whole place is like a collective unconscious forged in concrete. All so that some 12-year-old can use it to do a kick flip...
...hurt my mouth this time.") Sex is violent, and violence sexy. They are the two things that give him a thrill. And once in a while he can combine the two. "I don't hit women," he genially assures pearly Shirley Eaton In The Girl Hunters. "I always kick...
...Like all great athletes, his field vision is uncanny, and he's always a beat ahead of everyone else. More Magic Johnson than Michael Jordan, Zizou controlled games, feeding impossibly angled passes to appreciative teammates and scoring timely, if not spectacular, goals. Just remember that cheeky, chipped penalty kick that put France up 1-0 in Berlin last week...
...watch the penalty box on any corner kick in a game in Italy's Serie A, or England's Premiership, you see defenders grabbing strikers in full nelsons, yanking their shirts, throwing elbows, pushing, kicking--and that's before the ball is put in play. In response, players such as Portugal's young sensation Cristiano Ronaldo have learned to dive and writhe on the ground the instant an opponent is within spitting range. Throw in trash talk, some of it outright racist in a Europe where African and Brazilian players flourish, and you can see why a player like Zidane...
Answer: Because the government has worked to make it so, and too much of the media has acquiesced. The Department of Defense, claiming the interests of families, has enforced a ban on photos and videos of coffins, and although journalists complained, it took an independent blogger (Russ Kick, at www.thememoryhole.org to find and publish military photos of the caskets at Dover Air Force Base. And unlike in the Vietnam war, images of battlefield dead, even when available, rarely make it into the American media, in part because of concerns that they would seem intrusive or distasteful. We will spend millions...