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...rate effort to let its hair down, but the city's stadium, home to second-division Servette, doesn't hold even 30,000 spectators. There was the usual big-screen Fan Zone set up in the Plain Palais that drew throngs of Geneva's Portuguese and Turkish populations to watch the Switzerland-Czech Republic game followed by Portugal-Turkey. But Geneva is a serious city filled with diplomats, private bankers and watchmakers. Geneva on a Sunday is still deader than road kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Blood Drawn at Euro2008 | 6/11/2008 | See Source »

...United States differently, but I don't know that it makes me think of my past differently. In the United States, people are allowed to talk about money. You'll be on an airplane, and one stranger will say to another, "Boy, that's a really nice watch." And the other guy will say, "Well, it cost me $4,000." People would be horrified in France or England if you said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for David Sedaris | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...open a dispensary and working to recruit activists and local politicians to the cause. Now he does that from a small office just upstairs from his four-room dispensary, which sits next to a Tattoo parlor and around the corner from a Target store. Two beefy security guards watch the door and a smiling receptionist sits next to a case displaying bongs and other paraphernalia. Inside, patients examine samples in glass cases. Some day, Duncan says, this will be as normal as visiting Walgreens. For now, he's less focused on his inventory than on his group's efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grass-Roots Marijuana Wars | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...says Reyna, is that Spain would rather win a 5-3 goal fest than grind it out 1-0 like the Italians. Yet Spain's game, says Keller, "is the style of game that everybody wants to see. Everybody has respect for Sweden. But what do you want to watch?" As a goalkeeper, Keller doesn't want to watch Cristiano Ronaldo standing over a free kick, or Ruud van Nistelrooy anywhere near the box. "You don't even know he's there," he says of the Dutch striker. "You turn around and the ball's in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer: An American Game | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard may be a depressing place during reading period, but I was suddenly nostalgic for and sad about everything I would be missing. I wanted to spend a late night in Lamont, watch the Patriots with my roommates when I really should have been studying, and be told by a curmudgeonly exam proctor that I would be held “incommunicado” if I felt ill during an exam. Most of all, I did not want to miss my final weeks as an editor at The Crimson and all of the traditions that came at the end, such...

Author: By Adam M. Guren | Title: The Senior List | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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