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Maybe the top ECAC teams should play more tournament teams during the season. But for now, let this year's playoffs decide who really is the best team in the East...
...fans, for example, had no fewer than five to choose from (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, Made for Each Other, It's a Wonderful World and Ice Follies of 1939), and so did Henry Fonda enthusiasts (Jesse James, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk, Let Us Live and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell...
...Fuzzbuster -- and the battle of highway technology heated up. Police introduced K-band radar, which used higher- frequency signals to fool the Fuzzbusters, and "pulse" radar, which fired bursts too brief to be detected. But each new measure brought new countermeasures, including ever more sensitive detectors and systems that let speeders slow down without flashing telltale brake lights...
...congressional counsel, Nunn returned to Perry and won election to the state house in 1968. Three years later his goal was to create a new congressional district, for which, naturally, he would run. But a man named Jimmy Carter was Governor, and Carter favored a different reapportionment scheme. Let down by Carter, whom he had supported for years, Nunn challenged the man Carter appointed to the U.S. Senate. "I was only 33 then," says Nunn, "a junior legislator. Even Uncle Carl said I couldn't win, but I felt I had to try. I gave up a seat I probably...
...same reason. On the other hand, however cozy and egalitarian it might seem, a system that supplied all the kidneys we need through voluntary donation would be no special favor to our Turkish friend, who would be left with no sale and no $4,400. Why not at least let his heirs sell his kidneys when he dies? A commercial market in cadaver organs would wipe out the sale of live people's parts a lot more expeditiously than trying to encourage donations...