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...model is the change from a single-entity league to a franchise operation. In the old WUSA, each investor operated a team or two--Time Warner Cable, for example, ran the Carolina Courage and New York Power, and Hendricks ran the San Jose CyberRays and Washington Freedom. The owners split losses equally. Under the franchise model, danger does loom: one team can acquire more riches, creating competitive imbalance that bankrupts other teams and adds instability (see Yankees, New York, and Expos, Montreal, in baseball). But single-team ownership builds incentives to leverage local sponsors, a strategy the WUSA missed...
...professor, was best known for his studies of people who claimed to have had alien encounters. His 1994 book on the subject, which concluded that "the abduction phenomenon has important philosophical, spiritual and social implications," caused Harvard to consider censure, but a committee later "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom...
...some Iranian laws that seem, to us, at odds with the idea of individualism simply are the result of a slightly different understanding of what freedoms of the individual may harm the society. This does not represent a fundamental opposition to the idea of the importance of individual freedom, but a balancing of belief in individual freedom with concern for the common good. Even in America, freedom is not an all-encompassing word—our freedoms are also balanced with a concern for the public good. The very controversial question is what, exactly, that balance should...
...argued that forcing women to dress modestly is a breach of individual rights too serious to be excused in the name of creating a more modest society, such an argument should be made with the assumption that the Iranian government does not, like America, value the idea of individual freedom. It was love of the idea of freedom that spurred the Iranians to climb over the shah’s towering walls and force him out of his palaces, installing, in his place, a regime infinitely more supportive of individualism...
...What the essays are actually accomplishing is the pursuit of knowledge, the pursuit of freedom to really understand who one is, and that has an American parallel throughout history. It’s a very American thing to chart your own identity,” Hsu said...