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The World Cup as political science
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Kim Kyong Il, left, practices with Cha Jong Hyok during a North Korea team training session in Tembisa, South Africa, Friday.
A new approach to sports and politics
Editor, The Times:
In Wednesday’s article on the World Cup [“Brazil survives opener,” Sports, June 16], the North Korean team is described as having a “defensive, unflinching style” that “mirrors its rigid government regime.”
So, does the U.S. team have a shifty, unethical style that mirrors its government’s concessions to the environmentally destructive oil industry? Or does the U.S. team have a desperate, homeless style that mirrors the millions of unemployed and the millions of foreclosures?
Golly, it’s a whole new approach to objective sports writing!
— Tamara A. Turner, Seattle
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