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...heartbreaking.” “The team is really disappointed,” he said. The Lions got off to an early start with a goal in the seventh minute when Finnsdottir got her head on the end of a teammate’s cross. All night, Columbia used long ball tactics to get behind the Crimson defense. With the ball moving faster on the artificial turf in New York, Harvard had a tough time dealing with the Lions’ direct attack. “It was pretty hectic out there,” co-captain Megan...
...town so plagued by drought that a soulless corporation, Urine Good Company (UGC), has created and monopolized a market for all public toilets. The town’s penny-scrounging denizens are furious about this fee-to-pee policy, but don’t do much more than cross their legs and hold. At last, a revolution blooms when an old man is apprehended for publicly relieving himself and banished to Urinetown, a restroom that evokes Orwell’s Room 101. The remainder of the play indiscriminately parodies corporate greed, dreamy ideals, musical clichés, and everything...
...other media moguls, arguing that the restrictions are anachronistic. But even as both the print and broadcast media seek to revitalize themselves, the FCC needs to be careful in the amount of deregulation they allow. These kinds of horizontal monopolies are less-than-ideal solutions.The most vulnerable targets in cross-format ownership are objectivity and diversity of opinion. The news world is incredibly small, with the same reporters often working and appearing across multiple formats.Print reporters end up writing the books that are then reviewed and discussed on television and talk programs, creating a small community of highly visible...
...like leading AA meetings. But that hasn't deterred more than 300 Nebraskans from forming a dozen groups for Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and they aren't the only ones. On Monday, the Obama campaign announced that over 300 Iowa and New Hampshire Republicans had decided to cross party lines to support Obama. At Obama events in Oklahoma, Kentucky, Virginia and Georgia, a good 20% of audiences routinely raise their hands when emcees ask for Republicans in the crowd. A "Republicans for Obama" website has 11 state chapters with 146 members. An August University of Iowa even found...
...testament to his rock star status, a term he loathes for its implication that he's all style and no substance. But it may be the very fact that many voters don't yet know that much about the specifics of his politics that is sustaining his level of cross-party support. "I'm not seeing any pretty clear matches for me in the Republican crop," said Filipi, a lifelong Republican who found out about Omaha for Obama on the Internet. "The last few years I've really had to settle on who I've voted for. I haven...