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...feel the NBA has lost ground in popularity to other sports because it has become too synonymous with hip-hop ostentation? -Jens Jensen, ChicagoI don't think so. I think one watches the Grammys, one watches the fashion shows, and the reality is that sports, music, fashion - they're global trends. I knew that to be the fact when I saw Lee Iacocca appear in a Chrysler ad with Snoop Dogg. Or when water was being advertised by 50 Cent. You know, c'mon guys. We don't court it, we don't overly promote it. Charles Barkley took...
...Wednesday, Eliot Spitzer hit bottom. For a man who so often seized the moral high ground, it was an excruciating fall. Clad in his trademark starched white shirt, the governor resigned, sunk by his stunning patronage of a high-end prostitution ring. "I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work," he said. "To every New Yorker, and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize...I look back on my time as governor with a sense of what might have been." His wife Silda stood heartbreakingly next...
...flooding, according to Harvard College Library spokeswoman Beth Brainard. The pipe had already been scheduled for a maintenance check, Brainard added. The library’s emergency team was on site within 10 minutes of the first report and worked throughout Saturday night moving library holdings to drier ground, according to Brainard. Most affected library materials are currently laid out in areas of Pusey and Houghton libraries, while others are being freeze-dried. Spitzmueller said that most of the materials in Pusey collections would not suffer from water stains because they were covered with protective layers of mats and folders...
...their support becomes social evidence of the clamor. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy—people becoming part of a cause supports the initial assertion of the movement which encourages more people to join in. Furthermore, people who join earlier are perceived as being on a higher moral ground than the ones joining later on. Therefore, early supporters tend to be rewarded higher than those who join later, increasing the incentive for people to join. So just by repeating something over and over again, momentum may be created. This, when employed with other propaganda techniques, can create a long...
However, Glendon's first major piece of business requires the nuts-and-bolts diplomacy. On April 15, Benedict sets off on his first papal trip to the United States, a six-day visit to Washington, D.C., and New York City that will include stops at the White House, Ground Zero, the United Nations and an open-air mass at Yankee Stadium...