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...forward, Henrik Larsson, whose mother is Swedish and whose father hails from the West African island of Cabo Verde? Once, Rangers only signed Protestant players; today, like Celtic, they've followed the trend of shopping in soccer's global labor market in order to make themselves competitive in the pan-European leagues that are the most lucrative for the continent's clubs. So, while the fans treat the game as a tableux enactment of ancient tribal battles, the "actors" are Dutchmen, Georgians, Danes, Brazilians, Portuguese, Swedes, Frenchmen, Guineans, Ivorians, Bulgarians and others whose professional wanderings might have them, within...
...newly liberated Soweto, such as MacBeth Sibaya or Japhet Zwane, it can't be much fun emigrating to the icy wastes of Russia's rundown industrial cities brimming with angry, racist skinheads. But there's more than money to compensate: the Russian and Ukrainian teams play in the pan-European tournaments, offering their imports a platform on which to impress the scouts of clubs in Italy, Spain and Britain, who'll offer a better wage and more benign living conditions. Today's estimates are that around 1,000 African players earn their keep in Europe, a low figure compared with...
...carmaker Renault. (According to the COED, it denotes the quality of being exciting, vigorous or sexually attractive). Henry hopes the phrase lasts longer than another new entry, "flash mobs," the planned-by-e-mail happenings that grabbed attention last year but seem to have been a flash in the pan. Tony Blair hopes "sexed up" is soon forgotten...
Encke division The tiny moon Pan sweeps this space clear...
...that stringing paid off, and Whitaker was offered an entry-level job at Newsweek. He left Oxford and took a three-month trip around the world, taking up Pan-Am airlines on their “80 days around the world for 1,100 pounds” offer—which allowed him to fly for three months as long as he moved in one direction and only took Pan-Am flights...