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...could buy out the remainder of Beckham's contract with L.A. The chance of that happening, however, if highly improbable, given the money required and Beckham's own declining play. Galaxy coach Bruce Arena opposes even a loan deal, noting it would both fatigue one of his best (and oldest) players, and keep him away from L.A. well after the 2009 season begins...
...weekend in Syria--Z Bar, the rooftop nightclub at the Omayad Hotel, is packed. An instant hit with Damascus' rich and restless when it opened last summer, Z Bar provides not only a place to dance on tables Beirut-style but also a commanding view of the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. "Top of Z Town" is its Pepé Le Pew--esque slogan, but everyone knows who's really on top in this town. From a hill above Z Bar, the glass façade of Bashar Assad's presidential palace looks down at his capital like an unblinking...
...past decade. And it does a lot of admirably hefty lifting, offering fascinating interludes about Spanish bullfighting and Masai tribesmen in some places and a really delicious rib recipe or a listing of different cheeses in others. But the authors' florid writing-"Herders constitute neither the world's oldest profession, nor indeed the second oldest. But they are the most historically divisive."-turns the prose into a plodding beast clearly in search of lightness...
This year marks the 128th season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), making it one of the oldest and most celebrated symphonies in the United States. In celebration of the anniversary, James Levine, the BSO’s Music Director since 2003, has commissioned several works to world premiere with the BSO. On Friday afternoon, he led the orchestra through Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6,†a world premiere of Leon Kirchner’s “The Forbidden,†and Robert Schumann?...
...Harvard crew team. “I went on a few visits with my parents beforehand and just got a special feeling about the school,†Schreck said. “From the start I was taken with the Harvard rowing program, it being the oldest intercollegiate program around …In high school growing up, my buddies and I knew all the guys on the Harvard varsity eight, because they were winning and sweeping everything.â€His passion for the program remains strong to this day. Along with the proudly displayed shirts of defeated...