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Despite the breakdown of talks Friday, it's still unlikely that those opposing the cap will need to follow through on their threats to leave when the deadline for entering next season expires on May 29; after all, few sports can rival Formula One for its history of posturing. Ferrari, the only team to have competed since the series began in 1950, threatened in the 1980s to leave for the Indianapolis 500. Drastic proposals by the FIA last year to introduce a standardized engine across all teams - a nonstarter for the likes of Ferrari - quickly looked like scare tactics aimed...
...Follow the money, right...
...blasphemously, in most U.S. states, it's an also-ran: the sport only obnoxious, bloodthirsty goons follow. You won't find matches televised on ESPN anymore, since the ratings outside of the playoffs were apparently underwhelming. (The underdog upstart Versus network carries most National Hockey League games now.) And the chances of happening upon a pickup game at the neighborhood rink? Unless that neighborhood sits squarely on the 49th Parallel, the chances are about as high as the score of an average hockey game...
...fully support government subsidies for employers who spur their employees to healthful action, we hope that all programs sponsored by the government will be bonuses for those who make healthful decisions rather than penalties for those who do not. While we wish that all Americans would choose to follow a well-balanced diet, we do not think it is acceptable for employers to punish employees who reach for a cookie rather than an apple. Hopefully, the incentive of a free gym membership or some extra money for quitting smoking will be impetus enough for employees to make healthful choices, without...
...Vladimir Nabokov once commented that “reality” was one of the few words in the English language that is meaningless without quotation marks. Reality TV gives this observation a whole new meaning—one that makes me wonder whether those who wish to follow in the footsteps of Britain’s newest talent would be better off had she, too, been a fairytale...