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...tone-deaf suit or a chivalrous protector of the integrity of America's favorite pastime? Bowie Kuhn, commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1984, tangled aggressively with high-profile players like Hank Aaron and Jim Bouton and owners like George Steinbrenner, and chafed in 1969 when Curt Flood unsuccessfully sued the league to become a free agent. (In 1977 arbitrators ruled in favor of free agency.) But Kuhn launched the playoffs, ruled that female reporters should have equal access to the locker room, inked a deal with NBC to air night games of the World Series...
...can’t help but feel a little left out. Despite winning gold in men’s basketball for the first time in the 2004 Olympics, Argentina remains a stolidly fútbol-crazy nation. The term ‘March Madness’ would likely fall on deaf ears, as each local match between rival clubs carries with it the intensity (and, often, the violence) of a bruising Duke-UNC showdown. Madness, during Argentina’s soccer season, is hardly confined to one month.Sure, Ginobili’s face litters the front page of the sports section...
...Whether he'll succeed in integrating them into his own electorate is a mystery, as are the intentions of voters in the ethnically mixed suburbs (polling along ethnic lines still being taboo in France). But Le Pen's bulldog growl is not falling entirely on deaf ears in the suburbs. "We've been waiting for someone to say, 'If you're French above all, you're welcome and have a place among us,'" says Habiba, who contrasts Le Pen's appeal with that of mainstream politicians who "keep telling us we're French, but continue shutting us out as eternal...
...deal. And it was the interview with rapper Jadakiss—probably the least eloquent of the big-name artists featured in the film—that surprisingly issued the most important point: it’s just entertainment. All this undue media attention is falling on deaf ears...
...What did the role teach you about being deaf and mute? I learned that about half the people who are deaf have a positive attitude. Some think of it as part of their identity. Even if you were not deaf and mute, if you went to a foreign country with a different language, you would feel isolated. If you are trapped verbally, I think anyone can feel this kind of isolation...