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...Line Pity Mike Shanahan, who's learning that age-old lesson that players can make you look very good ? or very, very bad. Start John Elway and Terrell Davis in your backfield and you're a genius. Start Bubby Brister and Derek Loville and, well, there's no sugarcoating this, you're a moron. This week the slide continues, but since they're getting 3 1/2 points against Brett Favre and some other guys, go with the BRONCOS...
...excellent and provocative study of Joe Tsien and his colleagues will, one may safely predict, be widely misread in the false light of this age-old hope--combined with some equally age-old fallacies of human reasoning...
...Pittsburgh native, I?ve missed this rivalry, and I?ve also missed chuckling derisively at Cleveland fans each time the Steelers win. Look for me to be laughing my socks off this Sunday, as Kordell dries his eyes and gets down to business, and Detmer gets distracted by the age-old conundrum: Why are the Browns? uniforms so darn ugly? Bernie will be there, but he?ll be too far away from the action to do the Browns much good, as the Steelers finish with a comfortable 10-point lead...
Turks often refer to their country as the devlet baba, or father state. Says Minister of State Sukru Sina Gurel, the government's spokesman: "According to the age-old tradition, the individual belonged to the state and could expect good and evil from it." In the quake zone, people learned that they could expect nothing when, after 48 hrs., no organized authority had come to their aid. In many instances, rescue teams from overseas arrived on the scene first. A collapse of communications was part of the problem--Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit wasn't awakened from his slumber in Ankara...
Falun Gong (or "Law of the Wheel Breathing Exercise") blends a series of traditional Buddhist beliefs and simple exercise routines into a package that its followers believe promotes spiritual and moral well-being, and cures illness. Although many of its practices are simply a variation on the age-old Chinese Qi Gong belief, the authorities may be particularly threatened by the practitioners? fierce loyalty to the group?s New York-based founder, Li Hongzhi. The Communist party presents itself as the country?s supreme moral authority, and isn?t about to tolerate competition ?- particularly from a group whose leader believes...