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...polls don't convey the intensity of these fears. "When I was out campaigning last fall, this was all women wanted to talk about," says Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. "Not schools, not prescription drugs. It was 'What are you doing to protect my kids against terrorists?' Soccer moms are security moms...
...case. It is using the cricket competition to showcase not only its potential as an international sporting venue but also its post-apartheid aura of unity and democracy. The country hosted, and won, the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and was beaten controversially by Germany for rights to the 2006 soccer World Cup. The South Africans are hungry to host the soccer spectacular in 2010. "Sport in South Africa has proved to be a unifying and empowering force," said South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki at the weekend opening ceremony in Cape Town, in which some 4,500 volunteer performers staged...
...Camp Swampy, down in the 20s in the morning as the last-minute training picks up and the clock ticks down for the company commanders. They must make sure that every soldier is qualified to handle his weapon, meaning he can snap-shoot a quarter-inch hole in a soccer ball at 100 yards. They must make sure the right equipment is shipped--from helicopters shrink-wrapped in plastic to protect them from the salt air on the ships heading out of Savannah, to flyswatters (a dozen for every 150 men, same for mousetraps...
...brought a small crew that included several of his longtime Western students to a Tibetan monastery in Bir, India, to shoot The Cup, a film based on the true story of the young resident monks' impious obsession with World Cup football. "Buddhism is their philosophy," read the posters. "Soccer is their religion." The Cup employed not a single professional actor. Most of the characters played themselves, and Khyentse Norbu shot the whole piece without ever fully explaining to the cast members that they were re-enacting their own story. "Everyone knew me at the monastery. Everyone was comfortable with...
...world ranking FIFA gave Afghanistan's soccer team after it played and lost its first three matches in two decades...