Word: diehardism
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...brutally honest: to begin with, I'm actually from New Jersey. That, in combination with my status as a diehard Mets fan, means I'm so happy that Piazza and the guys finally made it to the World Series that I couldn't care less whether they played the Yankees or some farm team from Iowa in the next seven games. In terms of the presidential town meeting, I've already voted via absentee ballot; nothing Bush or Gore said, however enlightening, was going to get that envelope back. No, the impetus behind both my prayers that the Yanks would...
...seem to be six or seven duds like Judge Dredd. Which is why every time I think about Bryan Singer's big-screen version of X-Men, I get more and more amazed. Facing heavy studio pressure, an ever-shifting script, and the weight of an entire legion of diehard fanboys ready to critique everything from costumes to eye color, the Usual Suspects auteur somehow managed to make a movie that was both true to the source material and self- contained in its own right. But even more importantly, the movie was pure fun - the X-Men's battle with...
Until comedian Dennis Miller's debut as an announcer on ABC's Monday Night Football last week, I had not watched an NFL game since Black Sunday, January 1979. By which I mean, Super Bowl XIII. I was then a Dallas Cowboys diehard. When the Pittsburgh Steelers beat America's Team 35-31, I cried like a girl, because that's what I was, a nine-year-old in a Cowboys T shirt. Cradling the Roger Staubach-autographed football I had received for Christmas (which he had graciously signed despite the fact that my well-meaning mother had sent...
...will it feel like football? The average heartland football diehard doesn't really go for the thin-and-neat turtlenecked wisecracking type, with jokes they don't really get and don't really care to. Miller's "SNL"/HBO shtick won't get him too far in this booth. But if he's a real fan, the viewers might warm...
...owed to the IMF and World Bank. Many of the world's 40 poorest countries spend a considerable portion of their GNP (which in many cases is smaller than their debt) simply on paying the interest owed. It's a point of consensus now between all but the most diehard conservatives that without significant debt relief, billions of the world's poorest people will remain mired in poverty. Not only is the debt devouring resources that could be used for funding basic health, nutrition and education where it's most desperately needed; most of those countries aren t showing signs...