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Cup half-full
Read more: Cup half-fullBeing able to host the World Cup meant a great deal to Nelson Mandela. In 1994, two years before Sepp Blatter took over FIFA, the World Cup was held in the United States, a first. Blatter was instrumental. Until then, only Europe and South America had hosted the Cup. It…
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Footfalls
Read more: FootfallsPoet W.H. Auden. Skin turns reptilian in middle age. Auden-like wrinkles collect around drainpipe elbows. Once-lusted after nooks hang memories out to dry. Eyes conspire separate proof, filmy pox settling over the whole of what’s left to see. Age’s visitation, you now know, is no longer casual. Then, the intellectual…
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See no evil
Read more: See no evilIn 1999, a Dutch newspaper alleged that FIFA President João Havelange, who served from 1974 to 1998, accepted diamonds, porcelain and paintings in connection with Amsterdam’s failed bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is pictured here with current FIFA c For much of the 20th-century, the governing bodies of…
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Stella and Giusy
Read more: Stella and GiusyMany Italian women had a private seamstress until the 1970s. Rome is not eternal. Some scenarios lose all plausibility when a younger generation of choreographers can’t imagine them, swept away by the baby-screen neon of brighter and more immediate times. No matter how hard I strive to whisk Rome into…
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Morata’s choice
Read more: Morata’s choiceAlvaro Morata’s goals against Real Madrid in Madrid, above, and in Turin, below, were not cause for excess joy — by choice. A23-year-old Spaniard whose full name is Álvaro Borja Morata Martín has twice displayed respect and restraint in a huge public setting, noteworth in times that largely trivialize all…
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Whatever Eva wants
Read more: Whatever Eva wantsParty hats can be a one-off when relationships snap. Not so long ago I ended a brief relationship with a woman more than half my age. She was Croatian, from the Adriatic seacoast, and we first “met” on a website, with spirited chitchat eventually leading to several weekends together. The…
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