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...European game that's been losing popularity to soccer. Hockey audiences have increased by 10-15% across Europe's top seven leagues, as fans turn out to see players they'd previously known only from satellite television. "The [Czech] league has become the equivalent of the NHL," boasts Karel Knap, a sports journalist with the leading Czech daily Mlada Fronta Dnes. That might be a stretch, but it's undeniable that some of the game's European greats are back on home turf again. Jaromir Jagr, the Czech star forward for the New York Rangers...
...COUPLE of weeks ago I went to visit my high school English teacher. Sitting in on one of his classes, I noticed that many of the students had pinned American flags to their knap-sacks. Directing my questions to the class as a whole, I asked whether students generally supported the war. Greeted by a chorus of yesses, I asked whether support was for the general aims of the war, or more specifically for the troops. They looked at me quizzically. "We support the whole thing," one girl explained. A boy in the back of the room yelled out, "Yeah...
...smiler, coming right up to me and asking if she can illustrate my entire body. She is a body illustrator. Her name is Cretin Hop. At home she gives me cleavage, shows me a giant watercolor illustration of Patti Smith--slightly smudged by sweat--marked painstakingly beneath the knap of a breast...
...Another swill of beer brought some more bile up. Just that evening he was waiting for the Watertown Square bus after work, sitting on an ancient bench in the urine-soaked subway when some freak hauling a queer knap-sack pushed his waist-length hair back behind his shoulders and began arguing with his chum about "perceptions of reality...
Inside every blue-jeaned, knap-sacked youth who tours Europe on the cheap there lurks the spirit of the sybarite. At least that is the hope of officials of the Italian Line, which has a fleet of four luxury ships plying the Atlantic. The line is putting all its European sailings on sale for the sandaled student...