Palestinian women’s’ soccer? These players (Muslims and Christians) are “changing things around.” How they even have a team is amazing, under otherwise unbearable circumstances. These women have embraced freedom and are great ambassadors for it.
Opportunities for the entire national team to play together are extremely rare. The handful of team members from Ramallah and the Gaza Strip can’t come to practices in Bethlehem. They train locally, often with fewer resources and even less support than the girls in Bethlehem. The team can meet and play together only at overseas championships.
Christian Science Monitor link
Kennedy admires Chavez for selling his company heating oil at discount prices . . .
with getting and keeping political support. He shows his concern with government grocery stores, where a typical day at the government grocery store would be the “store has run out of chicken, milk and sugar,” but you might be pleased to “find rice, margarine and pasta at exceedingly low prices.” With in-store signage and slogans like this “When the people have needs, its revolutionary government responds!” it is easy to see how socialists exploit the poor for political advantage. A sample of Chavez’s ‘good’ business expertise I guess.
And your bud, 
