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...club for $1 billion in 1998. With a worldwide fan base--in August, it's scheduled to play exhibition games before sold-out crowds in the U.S.--and enormous brand recognition in soccer-mad Asia, United has leveraged its stars to sell merchandise from Berlin to Bangkok. But in strict sporting terms, United is a lesser club than Real. Since the European club championship was inaugurated in 1956, United has won just twice. Real has lifted the trophy a record nine times. With Beckham on board, Real hopes to be able to market itself all over the world. (Real...
...Bakke decision, the Court struck down the University of California Medical School’s strict quota system for minority applicants. But Powell’s decision came from a divided court that came together only on a few central points of the case...
...club for $1 billion in 1998. With a worldwide fan base - in August, it's scheduled to play exhibition games before sold-out crowds in the U.S. - and enormous brand recognition in soccer-mad Asia, United has leveraged its stars to sell merchandise from Berlin to Bangkok. But in strict sporting terms, United is a lesser club than Real. Since the European club championship was inaugurated in 1956, United has won just twice. Real has lifted the trophy a record nine times. With Beckham on board, Real hopes to be able to market itself all over the world. (Real...
...recruit their stars internationally. And the fact that they do sheds more light on European economics and society than you will ever get from reading the new draft of a constitution for the European Union. Until quite recently, soccer in Europe was organized mainly on national lines. There were strict limits to the number of non-nationals a club could field in a game. In 1995 a decision of the European Court of Justice invalidated those protectionist rules, and since then, the best clubs have snapped up talent from all over the world. At Real, Beckham will play alongside established...
...with President Pervez Musharraf. In the latest clash, on June 2, religious groups that control Pakistan's Northwest Frontier province declared that Shari'a law would be enforced in their territory?superceding the British-style legal system that is Pakistan's law of the land. Shari'a is the strict religious code that governs Islam. From now on, Arabic, the language of the Koran, will be obligatory in schools; girls 12 years and older will have to wear the head-to-toe veil known as the burqa, and women will not be allowed to leave home unaccompanied by a husband...