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...talent will continue, because the game continues to flourish beyond the professional level. American youth soccer has been criticized as merely a weekend pastime for most kids and their "soccer moms." And it is. Yet select teams from all over the country?even in Texas, that gridiron football mecca?are developing talent just the way the vaunted youth programs of Holland and France do. And consider the population the U.S. can draw upon...
...Last week's dramatic arrests of Al Tbaiti, 26, from Mecca, and two alleged Saudi accomplices, Hilal Alissiri, 31, from Najran, and Abdullah Al Ghamdi, 21, from Gueddana, was not simply a lucky break. The Moroccan agents ambushed the trio after tailing them for more than a month, the result of a tip from the CIA based on U.S. interrogations of al Qaeda members detained in Guantanamo...
...them, they acted like common thieves, robbing the Armenian priests of their crucifixes and blankets. If the situation were different and Christian militants were seeking refuge in a mosque or some other Muslim holy site, would they be granted sanctuary? Would the abuse of an Islamic holy site in Mecca be tolerated by Muslim clerics? Or would such actions be punishable by death? Since Islam accepts Jesus as a prophet, the least these fighters could have done was respect the site of his birth. In capturing the men without storming and invading the church, the Israeli army showed consideration...
Both the New York- and Princeton-bound say proximity to the city that is a cultural mecca, worldwide financial center and governmental hub was a major factor in their decisions to leave Cambridge...
Extra-curricular activities encompassed many facets of school life. Boston was a cultural mecca: the Museum of Fine Arts, the Gardner Museum, where chamber music was performed on Sunday afternoons, and Symphony Hall were delightful venues and cost next to nothing for students. The Harvard and Radcliffe Choral Society performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra every year and, even if one couldn’t sing (my fate), the opportunity to see one’s classmates performing with one of the great world symphony orchestras was an enormous treat...