Word: creed
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Whether it’s Rocky Balboa fighting Apollo Creed, Hickory High versus South Bend Central, or even Doug Flutie against Miami, the role of the underdog is always the most fun—as long...
...gets to the top, everyone gangs up to knock the kid to the bottom. It usually ends with Danny on the asphalt with a bloody nose and a nun yelling, “That’s what you get for horseplay! Now, go inside and write the Nicene Creed on the board…in Latin...
...also antique in its fidelity to the original CBS news creed: smart, crisp and hold the bullshit. Nowhere else on the network, and few places on any other, are the verities of Golden Age TV journalism upheld with such light poise, perhaps because nowhere else do the staffers so frequently consult, and replay, that glorious past. On the anniversary episode last month, a clip was shown of Edward R. Murrow, in 1951, instructing his director (Don Hewitt! - everyone was young once) to hook up the first ?live? coast-to-coast broadcast link, between WCBS in New York and KPIX...
...more transparent about offshore holdings, including the way they are accounted for (or not) on the books. In the U.S., John Kerry, the front runner in the race to become the Democrats' candidate for President, is promising that, if elected, he'll introduce legislation to eliminate Bermuda's offshore "creed of greed" within 500 days of taking office. "Corporate Benedict Arnolds" must return to the U.S., he says. Much of the offshore money is legitimate, but it's certainly a tempting political target. The U.S. alone estimates that it loses between $54 billion and $70 billion in tax revenues...
...Just as Creed assumed the unlikely position of friend and teacher to Balboa—his former rival—in Rocky III, Frayer has developed a similar relationship with No. 1 Jantzen (149 lbs.)—the wrestler whom he had managed to defeat twice in three match-ups while attending the University of Oklahoma...