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There's something pretty weird going on at www.usmint.gov. Thousands of people, most of them surely white Americans, are telling the U.S. Mint which of six images of an American Indian woman they want on a new coin. The woman is Sacjawea, the Shoshone slave who accompanied Merriwether Lewis and William Clark on their 1804 journey across the Pacific Northwest. The coin is the new gold-colored, quarter-sized dollar piece, which will be minted next fall and which may replace the dollar bill within a few years...
...Frankfurt ghetto where the fortune started, the paterfamilias, onetime coin dealer Mayer Amschel Rothschild, left a last commandment to his five sons: Maintain absolute unity. In later years the brothers quarreled often but obeyed their father. They wrote to one another voluminously in the privacy of almost indecipherable Judendeutsch (German written in Hebrew characters) and bailed one another out. Hard times for James in Paris brought Nathan's London to the rescue, and so on--meaning that the Rothschilds, a power unto themselves, could usually float above the fates of individual nations and regimes...
...Crimson has been generally slow and sluggish in the opening periods of the game--of the 21 total goals Harvard has scored this season, 11 have come in the third period. On the other side of the coin, opposing teams have scored 27 of 35 goals against the Crimson during the first two periods of the game...
Enter Phil Luckett, bless his heart. In the now-infamous coin toss, Luckett succumbed to a moment of aural hallucination and misheard Jerome Bettis's call of tails, awarding Detroit possession...
...time, I found Cowher's naivete charming. Sure, the busted coin toss was the fluke to end all flukes, but once made, an official's call assumes the magnitude of divine revelation and griping, as Chuck Knoblauch taught us, is futile...