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...beam his game, just once a week, into living rooms across the country on fall and winter Sunday afternoons. The sport has maintained its allure ever since: Fox and CBS each average more than 19 million viewers a week for their Sunday games, placing football in the Top 10 highest-rated regularly scheduled shows or series. ABC's Monday Night Football usually cracks the Top 10 as well. No regular-season baseball or basketball game even comes close to drawing those numbers...
...million Millennium Park. "We don't want to cut services or raise property taxes. That's political suicide," says city alderman Ricardo Muņoz. "So the tighter the budget gets, the more creative we get." The latest budget draft hikes the sales tax from 8.75% to 9%, the highest among big U.S. cities. And Daley has backed an idea to fine people caught with small amounts of marijuana instead of arresting them--proof once again that during belt-tightening season, politicians will leave no stone (or stoner) unturned. --By Noah Isackson
...Highest salary Ruth earned, in 1930 and 1931. Adjusted for inflation, that would be over $900,000 today...
...Increase in the number of U.S. troops scheduled to be stationed in Iraq in January, to 150,000, the highest level since last year's invasion...
...when al-Yawer, 46, arrives at the White House this week for meetings, he is likely to receive a VIP's welcome. As the interim government's highest-ranking Sunni and a sheik of Iraq's most powerful tribe, al-Yawer has become a key U.S. ally. Chronic violence in Sunni-dominated areas has raised doubts about whether significant numbers of Sunnis, who make up 20% of Iraq's population but have ruled the country for more than 80 years, will participate in national elections scheduled for Jan. 30. Last month a group of political parties called for the elections...