Word: legion
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...universe. And he, for one, certainly seems omnipresent. Since the runaway success of his book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind in 1993, he has written one best seller after another, selling an astonishing 6 million copies. His videotapes (which include Growing Younger, a co-production with Time-Life Video) are legion. A Chopra Website is in the works as well as a CD-ROM touted as "the ultimate Chopra experience." For those who do not read, watch television or surf the Net, the man himself will most likely soon appear nearby. In a recent six-week span, Chopra spoke in Denver...
...lives. Sir Francis Bacon made this point in 1620. "Printing, gunpowder, and the magnet," he wrote, "have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world...no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs." Modern equivalents are legion: consider e-mail, nuclear weapons, biotechnology...
...also because their builders didn't have the foresight to provide them with club seating, luxury boxes and Hard Rock Cafes. It would be easy to blame the baseball owners for being greedy, and make no mistake, they are. But their co-conspirators and enablers are legion: politicians, corporations, economists, fans, journalists. Sportswriters who once thought the designated hitter was the end of civilization now dismiss the old ball parks as inconvenient anachronisms. Tiger Stadium? "Bad neighborhood," say my brethren. Fenway Park? "Hey, it's a sardine can." Yankee Stadium? "Bad neighborhood and no parking...
Hussein shows who's boss by firing the British commander in charge of the Arab Legion: "At the center of these clutching pressures was the slim, short, 20-year-old youngster who is King of Jordan. The British used to call Hussein (rhymes with Biscayne) 'a nice little King.'...Last week he seemed sobered by his new sense of power, the next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped...
Last Thursday night Abdul-Rauf acceded to NBA demands to stand with his teammates for the national anthem. But during the brief suspension statements of solidarity and condemnation amassed with great speed. The ACLU readied its forces, the American Legion cried "treason" and columnists flocked to both sides of the debate. The New York Times entered the fray on Thursday, late, but with force, rebuking the NBA for having "damaged core democratic ideals" by suspending Abdul-Rauf...