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...only other sport I covered extensively for more than one year was football, and again, my beat coverage took the shape of Dante's Divine Comedy, or perhaps better stated, Groom's Forrest Gump. I shared the football beat with current Co-Sports Editor Bryan Lee in 1997, and that year the football team had its first-ever perfect Ivy League season and recorded its most wins since...
Eventually, the unorthodox commando rose to be head of military intelligence, then deputy Chief of Staff, before taking full charge as army chief in 1991. When Labor's Yitzhak Rabin, himself once Chief of Staff, was elected Prime Minister in 1992, he began to groom the like-minded Barak as his successor...
...cable subscribers to further solidify its current position as a regional powerhouse and national No. 3. Not to mention $1.5 billion in deal-breaker fees from MediaOne (AT&T will foot that bill). So Comcast is happy. MediaOne's stockholders are definitely happy. And the groom? "This deal, along with the TCI purchase, is one that AT&T needed to make," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "Now they're at the vanguard of the next thing in telecommunications." In fact, it's so in love that it's already hired someone to look after its Internet-friendly kids...
Woven into a disastrous traveling experience are surprisingly cynical comments about marriage. The idea of being joined in holy matrimony seems repulsive to Ben's best friend Alan (Steve Zahn) who, along with almost everyone else the hapless groom encounters, urges him to think twice about being "tied down" to one person for the rest of his life. Watching his own grandfather (who suffered a heart attack after Ben's bachelor party stripper came just a bit too close) convince him against marriage is perhaps one of the more disturbing experiences of this movie...
...scenes serve to highlight the few qualities we hoped Affleck had left behind with Shakespeare In Love and Armageddon, but overall, Ben's not bad. As for his bride, one does doubt the decision to continue wedding preparations a few minutes before the ceremony without the presence of a groom, but the scenery is definitely a worthy distraction from her irritating parents...