Victory in Iraq!

—By Elizabeth Gettelman

| Mon Jul. 30, 2007 7:53 AM PDT

(And not a doping scandal to be found.)

Okay, so not in Iraq, but for Iraq, and the unity was short-lived, but still. Duct tape and soccer, they hold this crazy world together.

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