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...covered like the [soccer] FA Cup now, no other festival is treated that way," says Paul Stokes, news editor of British music weekly the NME. The hippie shindig that became a celebration of counterculture is now as established a fixture on the British social calendar as Wimbledon. When the BBC broadcasts live coverage of the festival over three channels, online and on several radio stations, it's hard to maintain the mystery of alt-cachet. After last year's Glastonbury, Stokes wrote an editorial in the NME saying the atmosphere at the event was suffering as young people sought...
Nearby in Qadisiya district, tables of older men crowd the sidewalk of a cafe, smoking water pipes and socializing. In Harithiya, the coils of barbed wire on a patch of grass have been tossed aside, and a group of school-age boys now play soccer in its midst; on the same street, a cluster of teenage girls stand, giggling together under a street lamp - which, miraculously, is working. By day, the affluent Karada district bustles with life. Old storefronts - their glass once blown out by explosions and now replaced - display grandiose chandeliers for sale, dripping in crystal...
...week ago, a car bomb hit Harithiya, the same neighborhood where tonight the boys played soccer. The young men drinking beer on the Jadriya bridge were targeted in 2004 by religious extremists. Now they're back, but their presence is less an indication of improved safety than it is of the fatalistic attitudes now so prevalent among Iraq's youth, says one resident...
...fans, draped in national colors, swigging half-liter bottles of beer and singing for their team's victory. A half a million Berliners converged on the Brandenburg Gate in the historic center of the old capital to watch the game on giant screens. As in 2006, when Berlin hosted soccer's World Cup, a country not given to displays of national pride (since the Second World War) allowed itself to feel good about being German...
...beautiful and exciting game for Germany and for the Turks who live here with us," Chancellor Merkel, an avid soccer fan, said after the game. She added: "The Turks played a good game and one has to compliment them for that. But I am especially glad that we won!" Turkey, which is facing a political crisis over the attempt by the secularist courts to ban the ruling party allegedly for flirting with political Islam, put aside controversies to pull together to cheer the home team...