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-Analysis- PARIS — Call it the “glorieuse incertitude du sport” — the glorious uncertainty of sports. During the finals of soccer’s just completed 2016 European Championship, Portugal saw its singular star Ronaldo taken out of the game after an injury, but won anyway against a favored host French team that had overcome its eternal nemesis, […]
Tuesday’s edition of Icelandic daily Fréttablaðið features the national soccer team celebrating their historic win over England in the European Championship: “Iceland 2 – 1 England, where will this end?” Monday night’s victory sends Iceland to the quarterfinals, where they’ll face host nation France. The Icelandic victory against one of the iconic football teams continues […]
-Essay- PARIS — Nothing ruins the cheese course more than the smell of burning tires. Yes, it seems, the hour of camembert and brimstone is at hand. Angry mobs are burning Michelins at the picket lines. Congestion at the gas pump. Travel chaos as metro and rail lines strike. Power outages and the River Seine […]