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...baseball of global soccer. Becks will bring his chiseled chin, blond locks, and all-round star power on the field and off it - and, of course, his pop star wife Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham - to the United States. With a reality TV show in the works, a global soccer tour, a promotion with American football star Reggie Bush, and a budding friendship with Tom Cruise, Beckham is trying to do what many have tried before: popularize soccer in a mostly indifferent nation...
...American music dominates pop radio. Asking for directions can result in a 30-minute conversation. Working for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, I have learned that everyone wants to talk to a reporter. The subject of the conversation, however, can vary. I received a guided tour of the University of São Paulo’s equivalent of University Hall—invaded by students and barred to the press—after a fifteen-minute argument with a socialist student named Duarte who tried to convince me of the democracy of Hugo Chavez?...
...half hour in which to explore the town only half aimlessly. Working for Let’s Go, one only rambles in hopes of finding something cool to include in the book. At 2 p.m. I was slated to board a tour bus to visit Verdun’s war memorials; more than 100,000 French soldiers and 100,000 German soldiers died here in 1916 during the disastrous, ten month long Battle of Verdun...
...After a four-hour tour of several painfully evocative war monuments, holding those cheerful postcards from soldiers between my fingers made the Great War of nearly 100 years ago seem most present and terrifying...
...this signals a rare honeymoon for the Home Office, a much-criticized department that habitually lurches from one controversy to the next. Few of Smith's officials have had a chance to thank her for lifting their spirits; the new Minister has been too busy with her duties to tour her domain. Not everyone will recognize Smith when she does; the Home Secretary's staff have been reduced to pinching outdated photos from her personal website to circulate around the building. But with terrorist groups having seemingly decided that Britain remains a rich target for their operations, whether...