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...just baseball's popularity that got it such good distribution right out of the batter's box; the league made a major sacrifice to get into those 50 million homes, realizing that if you can't beat the cable powers, you might as well join them. Unlike the NFL, baseball offered the pay-TV operators minority ownership of the network. Satellite provider DirecTV owns 16.5% of the MLB Network, while the three largest cable companies - Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications - together own another 16.5%. Major League Baseball owns the remaining two-thirds. "We watched the path that...
...star is unlikely to change his style. Why should he, since in the past decade he's headlined nine movies that have grossed more than $100 million at the domestic box office? Zohan showed he could play a smarter, livelier, more active character and still connect with the mass audience. But in Bedtime Stories he's back to the old, tightly-wound Adam. In one of his exchanges with creepy Kendall, Skeeter says, "And me, I'm like the stink on your feet. I ain't ever goin' anywhere." That line could be a threat, or a confession...
...admitted car nut, he proudly shows off the vintage cars he keeps in a special area inside the dealership. There, 15 mint-condition cars gleam amid old Skelly gas signs and an antique manual pump frozen at 19 cents a gallon. A juke box features Sinatra, the Ink Spots and Peggy Lee. The colors are spectacular. There's the two-toned gray and salmon '55 Bel Air and the silky green '57 Thunderbird convertible. How could a country look at cars like that and not fall in love...
...just specs printed on a box we need to be cautious of. Our own, self-generated quantifications can unduly influence us as well. In another experiment, subjects were given two towels. Towel A was softer and towel B was better-looking. Not surprisingly, 57% of people said they preferred towel A-a baseline measure of people's inherent preference...
...thrilling ending masked some ugly second-half shooting numbers in the Crimson box score. After shooting well in the first half (44 percent), Harvard connected on just eight of 34 attempts from the field—including four of 13 from three...