Word: laming
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...When the lame duck Lewis ordered a permanent ban on all fireplace use, he committed the sort of authoritarian maneuvering that Harvard students, alumni and faculty should never have to accept from the administration. But since he did it at the end of his tenure, Lewis disgraced himself and his distinguished record, creating a sour note comparable to (though I love the guy) Clinton’s presidential pardons...
...Tigers' sole nod to their lameness was hiring Mike Veeck, the son of Bill Veeck, the Hall of Fame owner who organized the disco-album bonfire at Comiskey Park in the '70s, to do their promotions. So they did have Duct Tape Night, Magic Night with illusionist Aaron Radatz, a Christian concert after an Angels game and Baseball Card Blitz, where kids under 15 got to trample one another on a field littered with 50,000 packs of baseball cards. But Veeck didn't go far enough. First of all, he should have removed the Tigers from those baseball-card...
...needs the new sales outlets more than the recording industry does. Sales for the industry fell 14% from their 1999 peak, to $11.6 billion in 2002, as consumers who were turned off by hefty CD prices and lame products embraced the digital black market instead. Forrester Research estimates that the migration costs the business at least $700 million in lost CD sales annually. Worse, record labels tripped up the progress toward a legal Internet music market by quibbling over rights and hoarding their artists. They spent hundreds of millions on their own online services, alienating consumers by forcing them...
...about his ability to make executive decisions for the church. Resignation is not being considered, according to a senior Vatican official. But in the words of a Rome-based priest who has worked in Vatican circles for more than a decade, "On some levels, this has effectively become a lame-duck papacy." The Pope is already virtually unable to walk on his own, and his growing struggle to speak for any extended period is forcing changes. Prepared remarks are shorter, and even brief speeches are increasingly finished by an aide. The Pope did appear to bounce back a bit after...
...known as zoo viruses; that is, their incurably geeky creators simply e-mailed them to antivirus-software firms like proud parents passing around pictures of their new offspring. Roughly 200 viruses are in the wild at any one time. Most simply don't spread well; others are lame attempts at getting you to open an infected e-mail attachment. "Nude pictures of your wife," anyone...