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Three cheers for Bill Saporito's Viewpoint on the World Cup final [July 24]! Having followed Zinédine Zidane's career closely, I am furious that many will remember him as a hothead. Zidane has done a great deal to help kids in the rough suburbs of Marseilles, where he grew up, and is respected in France for his talent, determination and longevity in the sport. What Zidane did was not the best course of action. Nonetheless, his jersey remains a prized possession in my classroom...
...last few weeks have been rough for North Korea. After the country provoked international ire by test-firing seven ballistic missiles, the United Nations Security Council voted to bar U.N. member states from trading missile-related technology and materials with the North. South Korea is holding back rice and fertilizer aid; Japan is preparing to impose its own economic sanctions including tough restrictions on high-tech exports to the North. Then Typhoon Ewiniar battered one-third of the country, leaving upward of 60,000 villagers homeless...
...Hilary Swank get that second Oscar. He died in 2002 of what he would have called a bum ticker, leaving behind the manuscript of a novel called Pound for Pound (Ecco; 366 pages). Under the circumstances, it's a pleasure to say that Pound for Pound is not a rough, unfinished, posthumous collection of jottings, nor was Rope Burns a fluke. Pound for Pound is that most rare and absorbing of pleasures, a great boxing novel...
...after the essay first appeared, the discussion has taken on a new tone. And only now—after the critics have spoken, Walt and Mearsheimer have responded, and the essay has been the subject of lengthy commentaries in various publications—is it possible to gain a rough sense of the essays’s influence...
...Reed was that the Abramoff scandal simply showed him less as a Christian leader who, with tie flying and fists clenched, once led a march of young conservatives through Washington to protest the Soviet downing of a Korean airliner and more as an operative with a taste for playing rough and cashing in. He was still the Navy brat, scrawny and smart, that his mother described to PEOPLE magazine in 1995: "[Ralph] was a wheeler-dealer," she said. "He always wanted to have the upper hand...