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...state of the game. Sherman went so far as to advocate a salary cap resembling the one in place in other professional sports leagues. Volonnino, though not advocating an outright salary cap, proposed a luxury tax. This, however, is just as troubling seeing as it still imposes a limit, albeit permeable, on spending...
...outside the city and I'm about to pass through the gates to the main area where all the concert stages and concession stands are. The City of Rock. Actually, it turns out not to be a city at all but a rather ordinary-looking festival site, albeit larger than most. The festival is all about product placement, advertising and naked commerce. Huge billboards sprout up from the walls around the festival, signs for GE and Nextel, Direct TV and Polaroid 'I-Zone' cameras, and one desperately commercial sign in which a brand of Brazilian beer seems to be ejaculating...
...actually turned the heat up this morning, and it went up," said Lewis, who was once again holding meetings in his ground floor office, albeit without the accoutrements that adorned his temporary Oxford Street office for the past six months...
...more than its share of bruised egos and snubbed feelings on both sides. After a committee chaired by Georgia State University Provost Ron Henry spent months drafting a list of academic-content standards, not a single school district adopted it. Instead, the Atlanta school district drew up its own, albeit similar, guidelines. Says Peyton Williams, the deputy state superintendent of schools: "There's a quiet kind of resistance...
...ruling, it was difficult if not impossible to find a lawmaker on Capitol Hill who expected Gore to survive. "The coffin was on the ground, and the dirt was being poured on top of it," says a top Senate Democratic aide. Publicly the lawmakers still supported the Vice President, albeit in a mechanical and slightly impatient way. Privately they prepared for life with President Bush...