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...This Yankees-Red Sox, Canadiens-Maple Leafs-style feud is filled with body thumping and trash talking and spiced by a growing inventory of real or imagined insults ranging from stick swinging to flag stomping. Sample dialogue: "They are taught from a very young age to use their stick," U.S.A. forward Tricia Dunn-Luoma says of the Canadian team. "There's a lot of body contact on the boards. Is it dirty? It borders on it." Says Canadian defenseman Colleen Sostorics in response: "I don't think it's taught. It's not what we focus on, but if that...
...Four years later at Salt Lake City, published rumors had Team U.S.A.'s players stomping on the maple-leaf flag on their locker-room floor in a psych-up ceremony. "There was no validity" to the story, Granato says. "I was highly offended because as captain, I just wouldn't allow that to happen." But the damage had been done. The Canadians were frothing. And during the gold-medal final, U.S. referee Stacey Livingston dealt a lopsided number of penalties to Canada, which added to their fury. "The refereeing was atrocious," recalls Canadian captain Cassie Campbell. "But we expected...
...ghost of Reagan leads me, I don’t know about the other guys,” said Republican Matthew D. McCluskey ’07, who was responsible for running the flag into blue territory during the first game. “He tells me when to duck and things. It’s kind of like Obi-Wan Kenobi really...
...Mario) says he doesn't know of any 3x1 projects in the region. When asked if he has a plan for ensuring that the next generation of Tuxpeos won't be lost to the U.S., he says his administration has paid $20,000 for a gigantic Mexican flag to be placed on the highest peak above Tuxpan. "This will send a message to all those who are working up north that they should be proud to be Mexican, not ashamed," he says. "It will tell them that Tuxpan welcomes them home with open arms...
...priority on the efficient provision of public services and a high priority on the care and feeding of cronies (as Fatah did in Palestine). Bush's global-democracy, uhhh, crusade, is yet another triumph of spin over substance, a broad-brush carelessness that feeds off emotional election-day highs, flag waving and freedom rallies across the region but which has led, in every case, to severe hangovers...