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...scrimmage, keeping the Harvard offense and the team’s chances for a comeback alive. “When you’re not controlling the line of scrimmage, you definitely have to be creative,” Murphy said. “It wasn’t comfortable play-calling because it’s a lot more comfortable when you’re controlling the line of scrimmage.” The payoff three plays later, with less than a minute to play in the half, removed the last ounce of comfort from the 10,680 fans...
Naturally, I turned to baseball for comfort...
...businessmen from around the world. There is little doubt that with the global TV income, association football is a very big business taking off in Asia. Having been involved in the professional game for more than 35 years, I have seen massive changes in all areas-stadiums, players, spectator comfort and involvement and, of course, TV coverage, which now dictates how the game is run. My team, a proud Premiership club with a fan base exceeding 50,000 every home game, would welcome new investment to enable us to fulfill all our dreams. Malcolm Dix, Honorary Vice President, Newcastle United...
...held the lease on the Twin Towers had ideas of his own. He brought in another architect, David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an outfit famous for providing corporations with prestige headquarters, like the Sears Tower and John Hancock Building in Chicago, that are still within their aesthetic comfort zone. For a while Childs and Libeskind collaborated on the Freedom Tower, but the final design, which is now in the first stages of construction, was so unlike Libeskind's original vision that he removed his name from it. But by that time his name was everywhere else. Today he employs...
...Civil Rights Act of 1964 because of the “Curse of Ham.” The same creator who gave us “inalienable rights” has yet to extend those rights to same-sex marriages. Historically as Americans, we have used religion to comfort many in the midst of tragedy at certain times, and to cause tragedy for some at other times. Assigning blame or praise to religion for what we have done is as flawed as thinking that as an atheist country we would never have had slavery or never have had the Civil...