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...profound that it's worth fighting - even sometimes killing - for would seem utterly preposterous on the grassy fields of suburban Long Island where Foer first played the game as a child. America's professional soccer clubs - or "franchises," as they're uniquely known in the U.S. - were created from scratch in the 1990s, and carry none of the encoded history of their European and Latin Americans counterparts. And support for the U.S. national soccer team is hardly an outlet for jingoistic nationalism. In my own experience, American audiences are more often than not oblivious to the meanings being attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Soccer Means to the World | 7/21/2004 | See Source »

...profound that it's worth fighting - even sometimes killing - for would seem utterly preposterous on the grassy fields of suburban Long Island where Foer first played the game as a child. America's professional soccer clubs - or "franchises," as they're uniquely known in the U.S. - were created from scratch in the 1990s, and carry none of the encoded history that many of their European and Latin Americans counterparts do. And given its place in America's domestic "culture wars," support for the U.S. national soccer team is hardly an outlet for jingoistic nationalism. Indeed, in my own experience, American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer's New Wars | 7/15/2004 | See Source »

Allston represents an opportunity to aggressively address scientific weaknesses by constructing from scratch a third science campus at the University—a one-million-square-foot science hub geared to shore up the areas where Harvard has fallen behind, Hyman and other colleagues have said...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The DNA of Harvard Falling Behind | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Hyman wrote that in building engineering, Harvard would have the advantage of starting from scratch in many areas under “a strong and visionary DEAS dean...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The DNA of Harvard Falling Behind | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...European. Europe is trying to protect jobs by lowering hours. But reducing hours to create new jobs is a different approach than we have in America, where there is a rich tradition of taking on risk and trying to build new job-producing companies from scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Board Of Technologists: Start-Up Your Engines! | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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