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...combination of a marching band, a parade and the smell of hot dogs on Memorial Day. I know of nowhere else where love of country comes so easily and devoid of complication. In many other places, patriotism is best kept hidden or trotted out only on trivial occasions like soccer games. In Britain members of the intelligentsia would not be seen dead, my dear, with a Union Jack--unless it were some campy '60s relic of Carnaby Street. In France the Tricolor flies from every town hall--but I have never seen one outside my French friends' houses...
...this just a story of Berlin vs. Brussels. The drama that is currently roiling German politics is the fall of Leo Kirch, the mysterious media magnate who controls a bundle of TV networks, plus the rights to warehouses full of movies and other goodies like the next soccer World Cup. He is in hock to the banks for about ?6 billion ($5.2 billion), and lots of loans are coming due these days. When Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-American ruler of a globe-spanning media empire, offered himself as a savior, Schröder sent out the signal: "No foreigners...
...worshipped there. Moussaoui was a regular at Finsbury Park, as were other al-Qaeda operatives, such as Djamel Beghal and probably Kamel Daoudi, two Frenchmen currently being held for their alleged role in a plot to blow up the American embassy in Paris. Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian former professional soccer player now being held in Belgium, who is alleged to have been the designated suicide bomber in the Paris-embassy plot, is also thought to have frequented the mosque...
...black and Latino populations will replace swing groups like “soccer moms” in determining the political balance of power over the next decade, said a panel of political strategists at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO forum last night...
Mosier, who joined the team late last year after completing his freshman soccer season, admitted to feeling more comfortable on the court...