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...station that had Madonna and Britney Spears kissing. The NFL got what they wanted: the most watched Super Bowl in history. The NFL also got a wider range of audience, with younger people watching it just because MTV is hosting it. I should know; I am 18. Bashaun Smith Cleveland, Ohio...
Madden recalls Belichick when the Pats guru was a defensive coordinator for Parcells: "He could act like a mad scientist, locking himself in a room, drawing up defenses." That didn't suit Belichick for the p.r. functions of a head coach, and he failed in a stint at Cleveland. He's still ill at ease in press conferences, but he has a lighter side. Quarterback Tom Brady, another no-namer promoted to Super Bowl glory when the Pats took it all in 2002, insists his coach is "very witty, very intelligent." Asked for a few gems of Belichick stand...
...born in Hungary during World War II. His first memory is of a little boy who drowned in a cesspool in a refugee camp. When Eszterhas was 5, his parents brought him to the U.S., where he grew up dirt poor and delinquent in the Hungarian section of Cleveland. His father edited a Hungarian-language newspaper, while at home his mother went slowly mad--she believed the electrical outlets were shooting rays at her. All this is affectingly told in rich, dry-eyed detail, leavened with the occasional Vonnegutesque sardonicism...
...caucuses. Whatever the number, a significant share of the voters--13%, in a KCI-TV poll last week--are still undecided. Once again Iowa is proving to be an unpredictable crucible, molding and remolding candidates and their messages in a state with a population smaller than metropolitan Cleveland...
...house across from Hilde's. She got it furnished, makes him dinner and continues to enjoy his companionship. "He still likes his sex," she says with a laugh, "though I'm not back yet at my old energy level because of all the work." Ettie and Ben Kranz of Cleveland, Ohio, have had a somewhat different experience. In their 68-year marriage, they had plenty of good sex until his 86 years finally caught up with him. "Our lives aren't the same, but we complement each other," says Ettie, who at 89 still drives around town, shops, cooks, bakes...