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In winning the 2009 Gold Cup,  Mexico’s national football team did more than lift an official FIFA trophy for the first time in years. “El Tri” as the team of the green, white and red strip is known, ended a decade-long drought in which it was unable to beat the U.S. away from home , with [...]

A versatile phrase making the rounds uses the title of a book by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez  – “Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada,” or “Chronicle of a Death Foretold.” Often when something happens that was or might have been predicted, a commentator, writer, or speaker somewhere will refer to their version of the event as [...]

Some people have an annoying habit of resettling already settled matters through the use of unnecessary analogies. This isn’t limited to politicians  and conference speakers, just about anyone, having explained a situation in perfectly clear terms, and their case being, a priori, incontestable, will suddenly launch into “it’s as if your neighbor had a dog [...]