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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Holly Baxter

The World Cup has served as a timely reminder that maybe we can all get along

Forty minutes outside of Kansas City sits the Lawrence DoubleTree hotel, an unremarkable concrete structure just off the freeway. It has three stars and four stories, a modest indoor pool and a small fitness center, and it’s situated in a town of just under 100,000 people.

When the Algerian World Cup team arrived on a Sunday night, they couldn’t have expected much.

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