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David Beckham’s guide to celebrity
As a new series on Netflix shows, it takes more than just a pretty face
In 2004 this columnist visited a school near Basra in southern Iraq. The affable boys seemed to know four words of English. Two were obscenities. The other two were “David Beckham”.
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