He suffered from tooth decay and wrapped himself in women s clothes, and he is regarded as the pharaoh with the greatest passion for grandeur. And yet Amenophis III is almost unknown today. Now the erstwhile despot s burial temple is being excavated in Egypt. The ruins are breaking all the records. Now parliament wants to clean up the sport.
Soccer is never just soccer nowhere in the world.
But in Brazil, it lays bare the country s soul. Now the organised ball game has become the game of Brazil s thieving, nouveau riche society. And what it sees there is greed, contempt for humanity, amateurism, sloppiness and feudal high-handedness. More than ten medical practitioners have died after such attacks in Germany. The fact that doctors are beaten, injured and sometimes even killed by patients and their relations is a tragic side-effect of their medical art, but one that receives little attention.