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Although soccer is the most popular sport in the world, it seems to lose fan interest in the United States after people graduate from college. More people play little-league soccer than any other sport, but most people over the age of twenty-two (including outspoken Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan) believe soccer is a boring sport. The arrival of the World Cup in the United States next summer may very well change the way we perceive soccer, but just as important to the game is the way the sport interacts with the community...
...never saw the local spin on this issue in the national press. While scientists were talking of hantaviruses carried in rat feces, a local columnist swore that the victims shared a common thread: the feds had sprayed a small marijuana patch near Farmington with herbicides but delayed chopping it down and burning it until the next day. When the Feds came back they found the crop harvested for presumably local consumption...
Here is a surefire quiz to discover whether Strip Tease -- or any of the four earlier Florida caper novels by Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen -- belongs on your nightstand. If you find these characters funny, then Hiaasen...
Larroquette's co-star from Night Court, Harry Anderson, is just as understated and engaging in CBS's Dave's World. This is a rare sitcom that exists to showcase not a star but a writer. Anderson plays humor columnist Dave Barry, a beleaguered family man facing a classic baby-boomer problem: trying to raise three kids while grappling with the realization that he is no longer a kid himself. He sings I Am the Walrus in the shower (then looks at his body and exclaims, "I am the walrus!"), and can't get up the fatherly gumption to force...
Hart, who is a senior editor of the conservative National Review, and a frequent columnist for the Dartmouth Review, writes that too many students finish college with no knowledge of the most important literatures of the Western world--"major works they ought to read in order to venture forth on the life of the mind...