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    Nowak fails to find the cure for United's ailments

    By Steve Davis

    Wednesday, November 8, 2006

    The problem with being overly rigid is, well, all that stubborn rigidity. It gets in the way of solutions. Let's suppose, for instance, that you run a soccer team. And let's say things start going sideways on you. Even if you can see through the clutter and plot a solution, you may be too darned inflexible, too fixed in your ways to set things straight. This seems to be the case with Peter Nowak and his underachieving D.C. United lot. Clearly the best side of ...

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