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...would say,"get your popcorn ready" for Pats-Colts. And when you see another Kobe/A-Rod update on ESPN? Flip the channel to the NFL, college football, America's Next Top Model, anything else. When superstar athletes make more news off the field (or court) than on it, you know it's time to get your eye back on the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the NFL Is Still No. 1 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...presidential elections, candidates may fall on either side of the ideological spectrum. Not the left versus right, liberal versus conservative divide—I’m talking about where candidates stand on the spectrum between total ideologue and complete flip-flopping weathervane...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: On Ideologues and Weathervanes | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

...flip-flopping side, one of the leading presidential candidates, former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney, has made some startling moral reversals in the recent past. When running for Senate against Edward M. Kennedy ’54 in 1994, Romney proclaimed to be a bigger champion of gay rights than Teddy. Now, he claims to represent the socially conservative wing of the conservative party. In 2005, Romney praised the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill as a “reasonable proposal” that is “quite different” than amnesty. Now he calls the bill amnesty and opposes...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: On Ideologues and Weathervanes | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

...Orleans Times-Picayune asked people to write in their advice for future evacuations. Their responses read like poetry, and you won't find most of them on any Red Cross checklist: my own pillow, Sudoku, shoes other than flip-flops, solar-powered garden lights, cat litter (for the humans), the kids' immunization records, the good bottles of wine we were saving for special occasions, and Xanax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Save From a Fire | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...like to flip them up,” Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens said. “Both have demonstrated ability. We’re going to play the best quarterback...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Hopes to Avoid Repeat of Shocker | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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