Word: satanizing
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...other first-round game features an intriguing political matchup against Iran. The U.S.-Iran match was one of the first sellouts in France, which has a large contingent of Iranian expatriates. The Iranians, one of the weaker teams, can return home as heroes by beating the Great Satan II. Says Khodadad Azizi, one of Iran's top players: "The U.S.A. mistreated our country. In the war they supported our enemy, Iraq. That's why a victory against the U.S.A. will be a special victory." Iran's team prayed at the tomb of Ayatullah Khomeini before flying off to France...
...campaign by that country's moderate president, Mohammed Khatami, for liberalization and reconciliation with Washington. TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod, in Tehran for the game, predicted that an Iran victory would create discomfort for Khatami's conservative foes by prompting massive demonstrations and by showing the "Great Satan" as fair players and gracious losers. While the country's conservative spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, sought to spin it as a "bitter defeat" for the "arrogant opponent," the fact that it was celebrated on the streets by hundreds of thousands of men and women mixing freely represented a challenge...
...look at the big picture. An Iranian soccer victory would help President Khatami's efforts to reconcile with the West. Says MacLeod: "If Iran wins it'll show Iranians that America is not the 'Great Satan,' especially when they see the Americans shaking hands with them after being defeated." A sound case for the favored Americans to throw the game? Perhaps, but losing to a traditional enemy might be a little hard for Americans to swallow. So perhaps the growing rapprochement between Washington and Tehran would be best served by a well-fought draw...
...suit-clad girls from a textbook, saying it would disrupt classes. In South Carolina and Tennessee, high schools canceled Indigo Girls, top, concerts because of offensive lyrics. And in Alabama, a minister banned the singing of Stevie Nicks' Landslide at a baccalaureate service, saying she is a witch and Satan worshipper (an old rumor that Fleetwood Mac's lead singer denies...
...must stay after school, every single episode of his life, to write a homily on the fourth-grade blackboard (e.g., "The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with 'Hail, Satan'"). In a family of noisy eaters, he is perhaps the loudest, at least in decibel-to-kilogram ratio. He has a few weaknesses: exposing his buttocks, sassing his father, making prank calls to Moe's Tavern ("Is Oliver there? Oliver Clothesoff?") and speaking like a Cockney chimney sweep. One of the few trophies on his bedroom shelf is labeled EVERYBODY GETS A TROPHY...