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...need not only a nuclear-free world but a world free of civilian atomic garbage. And above all, we need a world free of poor leadership. It has been said, if we seriously want to disarm, we must first disarm the spirit. ROGER FERDINAND LOUIS FAURE Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...initial shock of the arrest of Simpson was dying down, the United States played host to the 1994 World Cup--an event that featured both the thrill of victory for Brazil, the agony of defeat for Baggio and his Italian teammates and its own dose of tragedy in the murder of a Colombian soccer star who inadvertantly scored the winning goal for the United States when those two countries squared...
...surely it would have been insensitive to hold the conference in Brazil, where wife murderers routinely get off with a slap of the hand...or India, where the number of women killed by husbands and in-laws eager to collect a second dowry is more than 6,000 a year and growing...or Bangladesh, where a fatwah remains in force against writer Taslima Nasreen...or Ireland, where divorce is still prohibited no matter how violent and life-threatening the marriage...
While the Brazilians paid lip service to the Americans before their semifinal match, most felt the same way that Brazil's TV Globo sportscaster Galvao Bueno did. "This is going to be rout," Bueno told viewers. Indeed, it looked as if he might be right in the 13th minute, when Juninho feathered a free kick from the left side of the penalty area and Aldair broke free to head the ball past Friedel. But Brazil would never score again. And the U.S., which seemed tentative and tired in the first half, picked up the pace in the second. When Brazilian...
...road to respect for the U.S. team is still a long one. "Nobody takes us seriously," said Lalas. "Whenever we beat a team, they fire the coach. But when we lost to Brazil last year, we all thought we had a long way to go. We are still behind them, but much closer than we were before...