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Had you hurried by, it would’ve looked like any other high school soccer game, one of thousands being played across the country on a gray Tuesday afternoon. And yet this wasn’t an ordinary game being played at Princeton High, a public school in an Ivy League college town in New Jersey. ⁠ ⁠ If you got closer, you’d have seen that the host team, the Tigers, were dressed in warm up T-shirts reading #IStandWithEvan. It was their tribute to a beloved alumni, Evan Gershkovich, class of 2010, a Journal reporter who has been in a Russian prison for six months for doing nothing more than his job of chronicling the truth. ⁠ ⁠ Friends at the Journal know Evan Gershkovich as an outstanding journalist and generous colleague, the very best of who we are, writes columnist Jason Gay. ⁠ ⁠ At Princeton High, especially on this rectangle of turf behind the Gothic main building, he remains Evan, No. 18, the wisecracking, scholastically-gifted, Arsenal soccer-crazed child of Soviet immigrants who was the c...
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