The James Logan Courier

By Michelle Kaufman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

BERLIN _ Three hours had passed since Germany beat Portugal for third place Saturday night, and still horns were honking, streets were jammed with revelers, and teenagers were hanging out of car windows waving Deutschland flags. Things were even wilder in Stuttgart, where the match was played.

By Michelle Kaufman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

BERLIN _ Zinedine Zidane lost his temper, France lost the World Cup final, and the victorious Italians, who head home Monday to a possible verdict in a massive match-fixing scandal, celebrated their fourth world title with unbridled joy after winning the tense match 5-3 in penalty kicks. The match was deadlocked 1-1 after regulation.

Hannibal (247 BC – 183 BC; sometimes referred to as Hannibal Barca) was a Carthaginian politician and statesman who is popularly credited as one of the finest military generals in history. He lived in a period of tension in the Mediterranean, with both Carthage and Rome (then the Roman Republic) vying for control of the region. Considered by many as the greatest enemy of the Roman Republic, he is best known for his achievements in the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which famously included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy.

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