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...game in the traditional strongholds of England and Australia do better than all right these days, we're still talking about a level of reward - maybe $1 million a year for the highest-paid players - that wouldn't get the kings of Major League Baseball or Premier League soccer...
...remember is that when I fell, I looked down at my foot and it had turned the other way. The rest is just a blank.' EDUARDO DA SILVA, striker for English soccer team Arsenal, on the horrific, season-ending broken ankle he suffered after being tackled during a Feb. 24 match against Birmingham...
...This group of potential “animal voters” is news-savvy, socially integrated, and politically active. These are the suburban soccer moms who buy free range meat at Whole Foods, cosmetics not tested on animals from the Body Shop, and who quietly shun Ringling Bros’ animal circus when it comes to town. They’re also the people who sent over 300,000 e-mails to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell last July successfully urging him to drop convicted dog fighter Michael Vick from the league. They’re politically active, and willing...
...photographs in "The Great Divide" [Feb. 18]. Whether intentional or not, your portrayal of Clinton in stark black-and-white photos, juxtaposed with the much warmer color photos of Obama, had the effect of increasing the very divide your article addressed. Obama was shown smiling and playing with a soccer ball, while Clinton was shown doing a phone interview, studying papers in preparation for a rally and standing in the dark before giving a speech. Photographs can be just as biased as language. A little more evenhandedness would have been preferable. Marcia Hayden-Horan, SYRACUSE...
...Compared to the more common forms of transport such as crowded buses and packed motorbikes, the Nano is like a dream come true to the average Indian traveler. Furthermore, this car is emissions-compliant and poses a small environmental threat, unlike the sport utility vehicles driven by soccer moms on Massachusetts Avenue. As such, it’s decidedly hypocritical and perhaps even ethnocentric for western environmental activists to lecture Indians against driving cars.James A. McFadden ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Mather House...