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...venues. "For fans it's a more intimate, authentic soccer experience when you're closer to the field, instead of in cavernous environment," says Antonucci. "Plus, it doesn't cost as much to operate and staff a smaller facility." For example, in the WUSA the Washington Freedom played in RFK Stadium, the former home of the Washington Redskins and their 50,000 crazed fans. Now, the Freedom will play at a 5,200-seat soccer complex in Maryland...
...brought up some very salient points regarding the failures of the current administration," said Jonathan Padilla '11, the former secretary of the Harvard Dems, of RFK Jr. "However, you have to emphasize that we are still a great nation. We just need to move away from an ideology that has taken our country away from what it means to be an American...
...local paper, The Truth, had commemorated the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's visit last Friday, wistfully editorializing that it wished one of this year's contenders would come to town and try to recreate the magic of the rally at which 3,000 people had gathered to hear RFK on Main Street...
...campaign speeches with his paraphrase of the George Bernard Shaw line, "Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not," that reporters covering his campaign used it as a cue to head for the buses. A fact RFK himself noted by one day just replacing the quote with "Run for the buses...
...about 500 people, sold more than 1500 tickets to people from 13 states - and that didn't include the more than 100 reporters who showed up. Seven hundred came to another event to hear Obama speak and sign copies of his best-selling book. "It harkens back to RFK," said Lou D'Allesandro, a New Hampshire state senator, "all of the new people coming out. And this phenomenon is country-wide...