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Like guests on some television reality show, politicians and royalty, oil barons and corporate billionaires are gathering in Zurich.
There they will fawn over 22 — maybe 23 — soccer administrators, hoping to persuade them to vote for their nations as host to a men’s World Cup in 2018 or 2022.
By any measure, these elections are complex.
And they were made more so on Monday when a BBC television program reported that three senior members of the FIFA executive committee received bribes totaling $100 million over a 10-year period through the 1990s. The report on the program...
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