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Free speech comes at cost we must bear

THE white banner unfurled by Switzerland’s players on a September evening in 1995 was pretty slapdash. Its ramifications, however, would prove profound.
Earlier that day, French President Jacques Chirac had ordered a nuclear test on Mururoa Atoll, a barren rock 12,000 kilometers south of Tahiti. The world was outraged - and so, it seems, were Swiss footballers.
One purloined a bed sheet from the team hotel. Another bought a tin of black paint. Then, in the idle hours before a Euro 96 qualifier against Sweden, they got to work.
The result was hardly a masterpiece. Held at each end b...

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