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...nation of seven million conditioned to distress, soccer has often served as the only means to escape the severities of reality...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Visiting Professor Sees Homeland Through Soccer’s Lens | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...weeks after Zelaya’s arrest, the Honduran national team defeated Costa Rica 4-0 in a qualifying match for the World Cup, seemingly positioning the nation for its second-ever appearance in the World Cup finals...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Visiting Professor Sees Homeland Through Soccer’s Lens | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...Pastor also warns that sporting success should not be the only measure of Honduran progress, and he notes that the international community will only respect the nation when it is able to surmount its broader difficulties...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Visiting Professor Sees Homeland Through Soccer’s Lens | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...compare Iran's nuclear ambitions to a characteristic suicide mission. Why this analogy? Normally one does not compare a whole nation to an individual, but Iran, as a Shi'ite theocracy, gives the appearance of acting out of similar motives. Iran celebrates the Shi'ite community that clusters around the great martyr Hussein, son of Ali. It used this ideology as it sent tens of thousands of undertrained young volunteers to their senseless death in the war against Iraq. Would this ideology play any role if Iran felt both cornered and it also possessed nuclear weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Mind of a Suicide Bomber | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...their export subsidies rise because their markets worldwide were shriveling, and a panicky Beijing was spooked by the prospect of massive unemployment if factories shut down. "By transferring wealth from households to boost the profitability of producers, China's ability to grow consumption in line with growth of the nation's GDP is severely hampered," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. Indeed, although China is also subsidizing some consumer purchases and retail sales in China were up about 15% in the first nine months of 2009, consumption as a percentage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could China's Economic Policies Trigger Another Crisis? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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