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Bass-fishing enthusiasts, however, aren't cyclical. Next year ESPN's Bassmaster is adding a women's league and an open élite series worth $11 million in prize money. ESPN is also increasing its coverage. And next December, probably in a California reservoir where the bigmouths grow to 20 lbs., some angler will reel in a lunker that will be worth a million FLW bucks, televised coast to coast. "I didn't create this need. I recognized it," says Jacobs, who has far bigger businesses in his portfolio that could occupy his time. But he's standing...
...thing was that the gay (and gay-friendly) élite had gathered to raise money not for one of its established charities--the Human Rights Campaign, say, or the Democratic National Committee--but for an obscure organization that has quietly become one of the fastest-growing gay groups in the nation, the Point Foundation. Launched in 2001, Point gives lavish (often full-ride) scholarships to gay students. It is one of the few national groups conceived explicitly to help gay kids, and it is a leading example of how the gay movement is responding to the emergence this decade...
...city from the north and the south, Grim Troop's Blue Platoon, dubbed the Dragoons, enters from the southeast along an artery code-named Route Corvette, into a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood. Within 30 minutes, they come under sniper fire. A three-man sniper team from the élite Iraqi Counterterrorism Task Force (akin to the U.S. Delta Force), with a pair of U.S. special-forces liaisons, takes positions in front of the platoon, scanning for muzzle flashes, as an Abrams tank 50 yards up Corvette fires its 120-mm cannon at an insurgent mortar team, followed by a burst...
...seeks to fill Rehnquist’s seat, Dershowitz said Roberts, a former Rehnquist clerk, will be something of a “Rehnquist-lite...
...member Parliament. This time around, no one is expecting the minnows to poll so strongly - not even strong newcomer the Maori Party, which is tipped to win five seats. Some small parties could end up with no seats; others, like Jim Anderton's Progressives, Labour's socialist-lite coalition partner, could be reduced to a paltry two M.P.s...