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After Eliot’s forty year term—the longest in Harvard’s history—A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, would take the reins. While Lowell broke with the past in his love of the macho sport of football, he despised organized cheering. In a 1911 Crimson article, Lowell described the practice as “barren, poor, and meagre,” and “with less modulation, less means of expressing degrees and varieties of emotion of any kind than any other form of expression—with the possible exception...
...again. Days after the Macau sighting reports, Japan's TBS television broadcast footage of a man believed to be Kim Jong Nam walking to a cab. He was wearing a powder blue sport coat and pink shirt and drinking a green beverage from a bottle. "Are you staying at the Mandarin hotel?" the reporter asked. "I cannot tell you," the man replied. "My privacy...
...fresh as it might have. Just six months into Blair's premiership, Labour was forced to return a $1.7 million donation from Bernie Ecclestone, boss of Formula One motor racing, after suggestions, denied by both sides, that his largesse might have influenced the government's decision to exempt the sport from a ban on tobacco sponsorship. But back then, Blair was untouchable. "I'm a pretty straight sort of guy," he told the BBC's Humphrys in an early encounter. Today that sort of charm doesn't wash with a public made cynical by revelations about dodgy dossiers on Iraq...
...world of soccer. With stingy defense, elegant passing and icy shootout nerves - oh yes, and the little matter of French star Zinedine Zidane's timely late championship game headbutt (and ejection) - Italy's national team won its first World Cup since 1982. To a country that follows the sport of calcio more like popular religion than just a national pastime, it seemed like a sign from the gods...
...Historically, top Italian political and industrial figures have played central roles in the sport, including the Agnelli family that owns automaker Fiat and Juventus, and billionaire former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who owns AC Milan. Smaller teams are often owned by top local business figures, who usually lose money to satisfy their sporting passion. But soccer's reach extends across the entire spectrum of Italian life. Following the initial outrage of the officer's death, La Repubblica columnist Giuseppe D'Avanzo put it this way: "If you don't want to break the toy that creates an appetizing consensus...