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...sort. U.S. Soccer has sold more than 20,000 tickets to this tournament, while U.S. fans bought another 5,000 directly from FIFA, soccer's ruling body. That's more than for all the other non-U.S. World Cups combined. The U.S. fans, organized by a group called Sam's Army, have even been practicing their singing. They do not need any work on their booing, as the ref found out in Kaiserslautern...
...lawyers, three are physicians, two are financiers, one a mill owner. Deftly combining rebellion with business-as-usual, [an error occurred while processing this directive]each earns more than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes and offices. Wrote Time's Reporter Sam Halper after sitting in on one such meeting last week: "Silent servants opened the doors, poured the drinks and arranged the foam-cushioned armchairs in a neat plotters' circle. The only proletarians were the help." The conservatives at the top fear that the longer they stay behind their desks while...
...Uncle Sam Wants You In an age of corporate layoffs, one organization has hundreds of thousands of openings on the horizon - and nobody to fill them
...Ruhr valley town about 60 miles northeast of Cologne, at the end of a hot sunny day. They were drinking hard; they were dressed to the hilt in U.S. national team shirts (and the inevitable baseball hats); there were Elvis impersonators and even some moron in an Uncle Sam outfit. We were rolling. "It's going to be like a snowball, like Lance Armstrong winning the Tour," asserted Christian Kantlehner, 23, from Rutland, Vermont, anticipating a U.S. win. The American fans got a good rhythmic chant going before the game started, (not the usual U-S-A) and sounded absolutely...
...Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu...