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...thus a focus-group mishmash: a yellow Rorschach splot (the country's shape on the map, at least as long as the northern part sticks around) on a blue EU style flag with a few yellow stars. Want to guess which one the Kosovars will wave when their soccer team scores...
Never mind all those maps of red and blue America, a nation polarized between Democrat and Republican, city and country, with entire elections teetering on the last-minute decisions of a few Ohio soccer moms. Forget what you know about the inaccessible general-election candidate, hidden behind layers of Secret Service and stage-managed pomp. Scratch those notions of a Republican Party that sidles up to pharmaceutical companies and oil giants, never ruffling the paymasters' feathers...
Junior Dave Kopelman, one of the co-founders of the newly-created club soccer team, explains that he encountered many frustrations in his dealings with the Athletic Department...
...Athletic Department has taken some steps to ease the transition. Kopelman says that the club soccer team has received old varsity jerseys and might get some soccer balls, as well. Moreover, the Athletic Department promised to provide some money to the team at the end of the fall...
...nights driving home safely along Haifa Street, a central Baghdad artery that later became a safe haven for insurgents and snipers. Back when it was safer, Dr. Hakki had to drive down the wrong side of the street because U.S. Marines were busy using the other side for nighttime soccer matches with neighborhood kids. For goalposts, says Dr. Hakki, they used their helmets and body armor. Nowadays, no soldier would caught on the street without helmet or armor...