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DIED. Lamar Hunt, 74, soft- spoken oil heir who founded the American Football League; in Dallas. Hunt enlisted fellow millionaires to start a new league in 1960, after the NFL refused to sell him a team. He became owner of the Dallas Texans and in 1963 moved the team to Kansas City, where it became the Chiefs. Hunt later coined the term Super Bowl for the big, season-ending match (the name came to him while he watched his daughter play with a Super Ball) and co-founded pivotal soccer groups, including the North American Soccer League and today...
...presidential search committee rolled out two panels—one composed of faculty members, a second of students—to advise the hunt for Harvard’s 28th leader. But while those advisory groups were highly publicized, a more influential body is playing a behind-the-scenes role in the direction of the search: the executive committee of the COUR...
...video’s focus is a car headlight that shines through the woods encountering people in distress, but the search seems more like a deer hunt than a rescue. “How to Save a Life” suggests that the video will provide a tutorial in rescues; in reality, the title is blatantly misleading because no one is saved. In fact, people are dying all over the place. The lead singer, rather than doing any life-saving, just sits at his piano lamenting his inactivity. “How to Lose a Life” would...
...Apocalypto” hits the ground running (no, really—the first glimpse of a human we get is of legs churning by on a hunt) and the vivid violence that characterizes this first kill sets the pace for the epic carnage of the rest of the film...
...Hunt, who was appointed to the Texas Water Development Board by then Gov. George W. Bush and reappointed by Republican Gov. Rick Perry, has urged his fellow board members of the Texas and Southwest Cattle Raisers Association to press political leaders for more study, but to no avail. More changes are ahead for the state's rural areas. Plans have been approved to develop Competitive Renewable Energy Zones that will cluster new and upgraded transmission lines near wind farms, a $10 billion cost that will be passed on to ratepayers...