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<p><strong><em>Editors Note:</em></strong><em> For two weeks, Katia Lopez-Hodoyan volunteered in Cape Town, South Africa in a program offered through Southwestern Community College. The goal is to help underprivileged children with their education. But as days passed it was the reporter who learned more than she expected….</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It happens once every four years and every time the World Cup comes around intense excitement seem to burst around the globe.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Has Brazil’s soccer team betrayed the beautiful game?</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That’s the question on the minds of many soccer fans as they watch Brazil’s talent-studded squad under-whelm — even as they win — in the World Cup.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; or “play beautifully.” That Portuguese phrase has become conflated with the essence of Brazil’s usual soccer style: poetry in motion.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eight years ago my husband complained that we needed a new television set. The old 19-inch screen I brought along a few years earlier mysteriously started to have problems just as the Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup was unfolding. Drama turned into comedy when he also started wearing his reading glasses, which he very seldom uses, because he “couldn’t read” the scores.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ocho años atrás, mi esposo se quejaba de que necesitábamos una nueva televisión. El viejo televisor con pantalla de 19 pulgadas que yo había traído conmigo unos años antes, comenzó misteriosamente a tener problemas justo cuando el Mundial de Korea/Japón 2002 apenas comenzaba. El drama se convirtió en comedia cuando también empezó a ponerse sus lentes para lectura, los cuales raramente usa, porque según él “no podía leer” los resultados.</p>