Word: byronism
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...contracts illegally restrained the commerce in long passes and end runs. Last week the Supreme Court upheld their claim. Writing for a 7-to-2 majority, Justice John Paul Stevens found that however worthy the N.C.A.A. might be, it had violated the federal antitrust laws. Dissenting Justice Byron White, a former football All-America at the University of Colorado, argued that the TV plan was just one element in a larger N.C.A.A. structure designed to discourage the "professionalization" of intercollegiate sports. Stevens saw the action differently. Without the N.C.A.A. restrictions, many more games would be broadcast by local stations...
...captured by winning a previous leg of the tall ships race. But the Marques bequeathed a legacy to future seafarers: the race's organizers hope to raise $50,000 for a Marques Foundation that will train other young sailors to brave and conquer the realm that Lord Byron called "the image of Eternity...
Poets are known more for their legends, alas, than for their poetry: Coleridge was an opium visionary; Byron slept with his half sister; Dylan Thomas drank 18 straight whiskies and expired. Rainer Maria Rilke is remembered as the poet who pricked himself while plucking a rose, dying of the consequences...
...mathematics professor at Cambridge University who also invented the speedometer and the locomotive cowcatcher, in 1834 designed a machine called the analytical engine to solve mathematical equations; it is generally considered the forerunner of today's computers. Augusta Ada, the Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, helped finance the project. Credited with being the world's first programmer, she used punched cards to tell the machine what...
True to form, Nelson next year will clerk for Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, and if past years are any indication, he will be among several Review alumni currently clerking at the high court...