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...overcome Germany to reach the knockout phase. The Austrians might take notes on how the Croats fashioned their decisive win over the favored Germans: by completely clogging the gears of the German passing machine. Germany center midfielder Michael Ballack spent the day spewing misdirected passes all over the pitch, never quite finding Mario Gomez or Miroslav Klose. Croatia's leprechaun middleman Luka Modric, in the meantime, was dancing around the pitch with the ball, often picking out Ivica Olic, who scored the second goal when a deflected shot from the right went past German keeper Jens Lehmann, hit the post...
...campaign trail this year. There is some danger here. Populism too often devolves into snake oil: nativism, isolationism and protectionism - none of which are viable positions in a global economy. But we have seen an unprecedented period of untrammeled wealth accumulation in this country, and Webb makes a convincing pitch that the fabric of society is being shredded by greed. "It is not class warfare ... to point out that economic inequities persist," he writes. "In fact, the reverse is true: it is class warfare from the top down to pretend that such inequities don't matter...
...Japanese baseball game, MARIAH CAREY throws first pitch ... into the dirt. Kansas City Royals offer five-year, $120 million contract...
It’s sales pitch season here in Cambridge. As our well-heeled alumni, parents, and combinations thereof converge on campus for Commencement week, Harvard is back to pulling out all the stops...
...world. Graduates give generously, comforted by the knowledge that their gifts support the work of the world’s greatest university, whose triumphs make the realities of Harvard College easy to gloss over. Recent events suggest that this university is failing to make the one sales pitch that its history and its future demand the most—to its own undergraduates