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...likes of his national team captain Claudio Reyna and winger DaMarcus Beazley, who play for Manchester City, midfielder Bobby Convey at Reading and goalkeepers Tim Howard (Everton) and Brad Friedel (Blackburn). In case the point here is missed, the marquee name American players - like their counterparts from Africa and Latin America - will mostly play in Europe, which is the epicenter of the global game...
...years, "lustration" has applied to the efforts of some historians in old Soviet-bloc countries to expose former communist collaborators. The word derives from the Latin for purification but, as the dramatic defenestration of two high-ranking Polish priests over charges they cooperated with communist police has demonstrated, it's a messy business...
...much intends to become the world's next great power. In the past year, China has established itself as the key dealmaker in nuclear negotiations with North Korea, allied itself with Russia in an attempt to shape the future of central Asia, launched a diplomatic offensive in Europe and Latin America and contributed troops to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. With the U.S. preoccupied with the threat of Islamic terrorism and struggling to extricate itself from a failing war in Iraq, China seems ready to challenge--possibly even undermine--some of Washington's other foreign policy goals, from halting...
...Person of the Year should have been Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. His speech to the U.N. General Assembly aside, he has changed the political makeup of Latin America for the benefit of all citizens, not just the rich...
...process is increasingly demystified, "Light Sensitive" demonstrates again and again why the best pictures can tease and suspend our disbelief in ways that painting and sculpture can't. Here the lens dissembles as much as it documents, stretching "the camera never lies" maxim to breaking point. Appropriately titled Tensio-Latin for tension-is Brook Andrew's mirrored image of a currawong poised as if to attack a coiled snake. These are in fact stuffed museum exhibits, reappropriated by this Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread throughout the bird...