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Kicked Around

Charles Oliver | 8.2.2011 6:00 AM

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European soccer champions FC Barcelona were in Washington, D.C., to play an exhibition game against Manchester United, and they decided to get in some practice on the National Mall. Police broke up the practice because the team did not have authorization to run on the mall.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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