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...sure, the PSG "ultras" have established a reputation for equal-opportunity thuggery: During a 2001 Champions' League game against Istanbul side Galatasaray, 56 people were injured - miraculously none were killed - when Paris fans stormed the visitor's section and savaged Turkish fans. In 2004, the bus transporting arch-rival Marseille to the Parc was ambushed by Paris "ultras" throwing bottles and heavy metal petanque balls...
Papal trips are often as much about what is not said and done as the words and gestures actually delivered by the Roman visitor and his local hosts. As Pope Benedict XVI's four-day trip to Turkey drew to a close Friday, here is an initial tally of what did and didn't happen on this most delicate visit...
...efforts and attempts to direct the shopping traffic online, the crowd of shoppers in Harvard Square went from store to store to find gifts for loved ones. “I want to give daddy a black horn necklace,” said Caroline Clanton, an 11-year-old visitor from the Jersey shore, who said she wanted to go out on Black Friday ever since she found out about it. She had been unsuccessful in her efforts to find one as of Friday evening, but said she is not giving up hope...
...prices affordable, but when asked if he would be back, he responded after a long stare at his empty plate: “I don’t like American food.” He’s from Chile. Salaverria later engaged in a conversation with the Chilean visitor, who added a dash of foreign flavor to the International House. Salaverria explained that the franchise is very popular in America. More than 1,200 branches have opened across this country and Canada since 1958. As four Harvard juniors walked into the restaurant, two IHOP employees greeted them with jokes...
...James Baker and the rest of the Iraq Study Group, which together with much of the "realist" establishment in U.S. foreign policy is urging the Administration to recognize that a dialogue with Iran (and Syria) is an essential component of any successful strategy to stabilize Iraq. Bush's other visitor was Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose main purpose at the White House appeared to be pressing the President to follow his own instincts and those of the hawks in his Administration by maintaining a tough line against Iran because of its nuclear program...