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RANDOM THOUGHTS: FIFA'S BLATTER

FIFA president Sepp Blatter There's a scientific study that is trying to decide if people transmit happiness by smell. I don't know about happiness, but I've frequently been able to transmit disgust that way. ... I was walking around taking photos when a guy asked, "Can you use all that equipment?" "No," I replied. "But I know how to use a credit card real well." ... Here at Harvard for my wife's class reunion.

The closest I came to Ivy League was the poison ivy on the farm. ... I told a friend recently, "Don't say I haven't done anything for you. I haven't, but just don't say anything." ... Las Vegas has taken the legal woes of FIFA, the world's governing organization for professional soccer, in stride. It has posted odds on the over/under of the number of FIFA officials who might be indicted when this is all through. Prosecutors in the United States say FIFA is so corrupt the next World Cup should be held in New Jersey. Meanwhile, longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter was elected to his fifth term on the platform "What? Me worry?" Brazilian fans are now charging that the national team must have taken payoffs to lose to Germany by the score of 7 to 1 on last year's World Cup. But the authorities concluded, nope, Brail was just that bad. Boosters of the sport in the United States are promoting the fact that soccer fits the American system—it's no more pure than any professional sport. A native of Switzerland, Blatter expressed his country's long-time objective position in the face of adversity, in this case, the indictment of officials for millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks. "I'm neutral," he said.

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