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...benchmarks" that Baghdad's politicians are showing little inclination to meet; the best hope in recent memory for national reconciliation in Iraq came Wednesday in the form of a shootout - not your conventional sectarian or insurgent affair, but a series of penalty kicks that settled an Asian cup soccer semifinal in Iraq's favor. Iraq's upset victory over highly rated South Korea has earned it a showdown on Sunday against - boy, do the gods of soccer ever have a wicked sense of humor - Saudi Arabia. The news drew tens of thousands of Iraqis of all stripes out onto...
...have Sunni, I have Shi'ite, and I have no problems with that. They never talk about politics.' JORVAN VIEIRA, the Brazilian coach of Iraq's national soccer team, which recorded a shock victory over Australia on July 14, setting off widespread celebration in Baghdad...
...classroom, in front of his fourth-grade pupils; his killers were two youths in school uniforms. Even Ban Bukoh's annual sports day has been scrapped-such gatherings are simply too risky now, she says. A bomb exploded in a playground in Yala province last month, injuring two youth soccer teams. Prapa doesn't know who the militants are, but feels they're always watching. "We're in the spotlight," she says. "They're in the dark...
Victoria--whose husband David, a soccer star and clotheshorse, has signed a huge contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy team--graced TV screens on July 16 in a reality show about her family's new life. It is fair to say that her useful insights--"High heels are good because they really lengthen you out"--did not win over all viewers. The show, sniffed the New York Times, "tests the American market's seemingly insatiable demand for rich, idiotic It girls." But the real point of the Beckhams' arrival is that it solidifies the mutual love affair between British celebs...
...Still, fond feelings for North Korea haven't entirely disappeared among many zainichi, even if they've gotten somewhat complicated. The Chongyron associate says that when soccer's World Cup rolls around, he still cheers for North Korea. "But I realized when I watched a match that I know everyone on the Japan side, but no one for North Korea," he says. "Living in Japan but supporting North Korea is just very strange...