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What's hot, not for the week

By Dan Shanoff
Page 2 columnist

Wednesday, June 19, 2002

OK, folks, back to World Cup class: Patriotism -- good. Jingoism -- bad. Patriotism: Passionately rooting for your own country. Jingoism: Passionately rooting for your own country ... and against the other countries. Hey, throw on an official jersey, join the rest of the cool kids and watch our squad -- the biggest bandwagon this side of Luis Castillo -- on Friday morning. But win or lose, it's a sportsmanship thing these days, apparently forgotten in Italy, where the Korean guy who scored the ...

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