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...because fans don't treat just the players on opposing teams as means rather than ends; they treat their own players the same way. Sports are often compared to war. The team is our army, battling for our honor. But there's a key twist: the players aren't citizen-soldiers; they're mercenaries. They can be bought, bartered and sold, and once they are, they go from heroes to enemies. They're valued only when they wear the uniform. And once they hang it up for good, we stop caring about them, except when they take...
...because fans don't treat just the players on opposing teams as means rather than ends; they treat their own players the same way. Sports are often compared to war. The team is our army, battling for our honor. But there's a key twist: the players aren't citizen-soldiers; they're mercenaries. They can be bought, bartered and sold, and once they are, they go from heroes to enemies. They're valued only when they wear the uniform. And once they hang it up for good, we stop caring about them, except when they take...
...fellowship represents an opportunity to cast a critical eye on traditional media, where he made his career for 30 years as a reporter at The Miami Herald covering political campaigns. His work at the center will look at the ways new media—including blogs, podcasts, and citizen journalism—are reshaping both politics and political reporting...
...under that country's one-child law, which they say indicates he's weak on pro-life issues. And though he has consistently ruled with the Administration on a number of important and high-profile terrorism cases, Mukasey broke with them in an early, crucial ruling, saying that American citizen Jose Padilla had a right to a lawyer, no matter what his status in the war on terror. Mukasey is also very close to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whom social conservatives distrust...
...Pentagon started getting these phone calls from people in the Pentagon, saying, "Cafferty just called Rumsfeld a war criminal." I had to go on the air and say, "You know, I've stepped over the line." That being said, I will go to my grave as Jack Cafferty, Private Citizen, believing that these people committed war crimes...