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Managers at Circuit City, the nation's second largest electronics retailer, announced last week that it will phase out sales of videotaped movies. That pushed VCRs an inch closer to irrelevancy. But in 1984, they were the coolest Reagan-era gadget around...
...quality of the football. Perhaps that is because soccer's audience has become spoiled by the high standard of club competitions, such as the European Champions' League. And such a standard comes at a price; many of the globe's top players are stars on the European circuit, and some arrived at World Cup 2002 exhausted after long domestic seasons. Overall moments of brilliance, like the thrusting runs of Turkey's Hasan Sas and the second half of the final, were bright lights of World Cup 2002 against a bleak background of some stupefying games?like England's play...
...quality of the football. Perhaps that is because soccer's audience has become spoiled by the high standard of club competitions, such as the European Champions' League. And such a standard comes at a price; many of the globe's top players are stars on the European circuit, and some arrived at World Cup 2002 exhausted after long domestic seasons. Overall moments of brilliance, like the thrusting runs of Turkey's Hasan Sas and the second half of the final, were bright lights of World Cup 2002 against a bleak background of some stupefying games - like England's play...
...professor at Yale Law School. "But the reasoning isn?t crazy. It?s technically correct." Vincent Blasi, a law professor at Columbia University and the University of Virginia, agreed. "If you?re being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive," he says. "There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country." That desire was strengthened by the terrorist attacks, as schools across the nation turned more openly to prayer for solace...
...sued the local school board with no prior warning. "It would have been nice if he?d come to talk to us first," says Superintendent Dave Gordon. Doing it all on his own, however, was Newdow?s speciality. He insisted on representing himself even when California?s Ninth circuit court tried to appoint an attorney for him. He would come home from the ER at 6pm and study case law on the Internet until 3am. "It started out as a hobby," says Newdow. "I was passionate about it. I knew I was right." But he was not entirely motivated...