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...Though a homesick U.S. contingent forms a large bloc of NASN viewers, ESPN International executive vice president Russell Wolff says an even larger bloc comprises Europeans attracted to American sports. Some, he says, have lived in the U.S., while others have such a passion for all sports that their horizons have expanded. For other Europeans, the National Hockey League, say, offers the best opportunity to see their hometown skaters. "In the NHL, 217 players--30% of the total--come from Europe," Wolff notes. "In countries like the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and others where hockey is the big sport, being...
...opening faculty meeting in the fall of 1960, the Concord Academy teachers were alerted to the arrival of a new freshman boarder from a small town in Virginia. She was only 12 years old, about to be 13. It seemed likely that she would be homesick, unsure of herself, slow to make friends. Drew Gilpin—known in high school simply as Drewdie—was none of those things...
...just heard; I saw that I hadn’t been lied to. Sure enough, the Weathermen—who rose from the ashes of the defunct Students for a Democratic Society in 1969, taking their name from Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” lyric, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—carried out a casualty-free campaign of pre-announced bombings of dozens of public buildings; the U.S. Capitol truly was among them...
...Homesick is a featherweight farce about a an illiterate fool who stumbles into a bankrupt satellite television company in Baghdad - the Hot Hot Channel - and is mistaken for the new station manager. Its sensibility leans heavily toward slapstick of a kind that finds humor in the sight of a dwarf with an Egyptian accent being tossed offstage, and unlike in real-life Iraq, there are no car bombings or beheadings and none of the characters are kidnapped...
...director of Homesick, an Iraqi Kurd named Suran Ali Sharif, had in the past staged a more topical, political play in Syria. But as anything recognizable as normal life in Iraq fell apart, and as the ranks of the refugee population in Syria swelled, Sharif decided that serious theater was out of the question. "It's impossible to present these troubles on stage," he said. Iraqis in Syria "are under such psychological pressure, all we can do is try to make people laugh." Still, there is at least one reflection of the new abnormal of Iraq in Homesick: Mahdi...