The Beautiful Game
In the World Cup, the team is the country, and the country is the team. Photograph by Nick Wiebe.A few Saturdays ago, Inter Milan, an Italian team without any Italian players that's coached by a...
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The varying temperaments of British and American storytelling. Lower Basswood Falls, Superior National Forest, July 1961. In 1890, a thirty-seven-year-old Scot named James F. Muirhead arrived in...
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The pros and cons of the digitized Whitman and his “lost” novels. Walt Whitman with a butterfly, 1873. When I was a history graduate student in the waning days of the analog nineties, there were...
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A few Saturdays ago, Inter Milan, an Italian team without any Italian players that’s coached by a Portuguese, won the Champions League final against Bayern Munich, a German team, coached by a Dutchman,...
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The varying temperaments of British and American storytelling. Lower Basswood Falls, Superior National Forest, July 1961. In 1890, a thirty-seven-year-old Scot named James F. Muirhead arrived in...
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The pros and cons of the digitized Whitman and his “lost” novels. Walt Whitman with a butterfly, 1873. When I was a history graduate student in the waning days of the analog nineties, there were...
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