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...Throw in this year's high-profile failures in other global sports - the U.S. hockey team's freeze-up in Torino, baseball's loss to Canada (Canada!), in the World Baseball Classic, and the soccer team's struggles at the World Cup (did we mention Tour de France "champ" Floyd Landis and track star Justin Gatlin, both accused of doping?) - and the basketball World Championship, which starts Aug. 19th in Japan, takes on added urgency...
...stay overnight. It's an especially frustrating time for children; although it's the summer break, parents are reluctant to let kids out of the house. Danger hides everywhere. Last week several teenagers were among 11 people killed and 14 hurt when two bombs went off at a soccer field in the Shi'ite district of Amil. Al-Shaheen, our bureau manager, has three children going stir-crazy at home. "They feel imprisoned," he says. "For entertainment, they get on my wife's nerves during the day and on mine at night...
...only available escapism is via TV. The one post-Saddam freedom Iraqis can unreservedly enjoy is access to satellite television--Lebanese music videos, Egyptian soaps, the Oprah Winfrey Show (with Arabic subtitles), sports. The soccer World Cup was a welcome distraction. Since Iraq didn't qualify, people invested their emotions in foreign teams, like Brazil and Italy. When the Italians won the tournament, it was our driver Wisam--not our Milanese photographer, Franco Pagetti--who had to be restrained from shooting an AK-47 into the air, the traditional Arab celebration. But even the enjoyment of a faraway sporting event...
Pablo S. Torre ’07, a Crimson sports editor, is a sociology concentrator in Quincy House. He is gainfully employed at Sports Illustrated this summer, and would even be amenable to playing soccer thanks to Zinedine Zidane and the 2006 World...
...with the suburban tilt in these areas, the candidates are also trying to outdo one another in their appeals to the soccer-mom vote. Mike Fitzpatrick, a Republican who represents the Bucks County area, put out a plan two months ago that would require libraries and schools to block access to sites like myspace.com, in an effort to help stop online predators from finding ways to meet and prey on children. So his rival, Patrick Murphy, has now put out his own plan for "online protection," in which he proposes to ban access to sites like myspace for people convicted...