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...uniquely known in the U.S. - were created from scratch in the 1990s, and carry none of the encoded history that many of their European and Latin Americans counterparts do. And given its place in America's domestic "culture wars," support for the U.S. national soccer team is hardly an outlet for jingoistic nationalism. Indeed, in my own experience, American audiences are more often than not oblivious to the meanings being attached to the game by fans of the opposition when Team USA has played Iran, Serbia or Mexico in recent internationals...
...political events of the past decade suggest that despite the optimism of globalization's cheerleaders, the process has hardly dissipated sectarian and ethnic political passions in historical trouble spots. But the dynamics of globalization in the game suggest it may become increasingly hard to sustain soccer as an outlet for them...
...Houses, trained mental health professionals could identify students’ struggles, provide an outlet for students’ concerns, destigmatize seeking and receiving help, handle emergency mental health crises and, when necessary, ease students into longer-term mental health treatment. Just by living among students, they would become aware of the day-to-day pressures of the College and, if trained in the ways of Harvard’s bureaucracy and administration, they could help troubled students navigate them safely...
They designed H Bomb Magazine, they said, not as a pornographic outlet, but to start a dialogue on campus about issues of sexuality, with a special focus on literature and art with a sexual bent...
Presidential giant Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, was famous for retiring to his home on Brattle Street, where he provided an outlet for anyone looking to complain about his successor A. Lawrence Lowell, Class...