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...enormous investment by the teams’ owners and other investors.  In addition, the three major networks each pay an average of two billion dollars a year to broadcast NFL games. With millions of dollars on the line for each game, teams, television networks, and NFL executives give their best effort to produce the best football possible. The officiating should be no exception. If referees were full-time, they could watch film, attend practices, and devote their energies exclusively to football, which would minimize bad calls and misrulings...

Author: By Peter L. Knudson | Title: An Official Change | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

When I realized that I would have almost three weeks in Florida over J-Term, I decided that it was time to give it another try (the weather also happened to be unseasonably cold, so there wasn’t really much else to do). My first game of nine holes was interesting, to say the least. While the sporadic golf lessons of my youth served me well, the game was not exactly a success. Randomly I would make a great shot, which would cause my mother to emit a siren-like sound—“Whoowhoo...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Golfing with the Ladies Club | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...During our winter of malcontent, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann stooped to the level of Limbaugh, referring to Senator Scott Brown, who rode in on a tea party wave, as a “homophobic, racist, teabagging supporter of violence against women.” We need not give the movement undue credit—it’s wrought with internal contradictions and an irresponsible tinge of me-first-ism—but we do need to cease the condescension. Even if the movement doesn’t crystallize into a coherent political organization, its animating sentiments...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: It’s a Party in the USA | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...don’t think politics has to be either a zero-sum game or a place where you have to give something up,” Witzler said. “There’s not a finite piece of pie that has to be split...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Steele Stresses Honest Politics | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...Wilf says she “snapped back” out of the jaws of consulting, and her subsequent political career is part of an effort to give back to her motherland and the hallowed halls of her alma mater...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilf ’96 Elected to Israeli Parliament | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

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