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...with his quick feet and broad shoulders excels at every position on the pitch. He dreams about going to Britain to follow his favorite players - he can reel off the names of the stars on England's national team - and maybe study economics at university. At a weekly pickup game in late 2002, a close friend of Abdi Salan's shows up on crutches. His left leg has been blown off in a mortar attack on his apartment building. Violence is nothing new to Somalis of Abdi Salan's generation. He was 11 when the civil war broke...
...didn’t do anything,” Holsey said. “I biked instead of running. I just shot, but didn’t play any pickup or anything. I kinda stayed off my knees and didn’t do that much playing...
...grievances are only getting worse, setting back the effort to win over local hearts and minds. "Before the Americans came, we heard a lot about their respect for human rights," says Khalid Mustafa Akbar, at a mourning tent for his three brothers who were shot dead while driving their pickup by a U.S. patrol outside Tikrit last week. "But then we found it is only talk...
...DEAN OFFENSIVE OR JUST TOO HONEST IN SAYING HE WANTED THE SUPPORT OF "GUYS WITH CONFEDERATE FLAGS IN THEIR PICKUP TRUCKS"? As I told him afterward, if you had just said you want the support of Southern whites that drive pickup trucks, the same message would have got across. But when he threw in the Confederate flag, it showed a little bit of an incompatibility with national opinion...
...most memorable pickup line a guy/girl has ever used on you: “Are you sure you don’t have chickens on your farm? Because you sure know how to raise a cock...