Word: mecca
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Held at the track "mecca" of the Boston area--Harvard's own Gordon Track and Tennis Center--both the men and women's squads faced squads from Northeastern, Boston college, Bentley and Brandies. The women also faced teams from Boston University and Tufts...
...while in prison and become the foremost spokesman of its fiercely proud and racist party line, played out his final political incarnation. After revealing that his mentor, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered several illegitimate children, Malcolm had split with the Nation. He had founded a splinter group, traveled to Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy (along with the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) and begun to believe he was marked for death -- correctly so. One conspirator distracted his bodyguards' attention; another pulled a shotgun trigger, creating, in the words of writer Marshall Frady, "a perfectly circular seven-inch pattern...
...Liberals must stop hugging trees and start kicking some ass," says liberal syndicated host Tom Leykis. But even in sympathetic markets, liberals are the kickees. Surely the Bay Area is the Mecca (or, as Rush would say, the Moscow) of the California left. But in San Francisco, KSFO has just dumped all its moderate and liberal talk-show hosts -- including Leykis -- to go to a conservative format featuring Hamblin, Reagan, Emerson and Pat Buchanan. What's the problem with liberals? "They are genetically engineered to not offend anybody," says Tom Tradup, general manager of talk station WLS in Chicago. "People...
Broadway isn't the only place for grand spectacle. At the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas, that Mecca of excess, the Montreal troupe Cirque du Soleil has created a gorgeously surreal, thrillingly theatrical pageant. Acrobats mingle with Adam and Eve, spaceship Earth and a giant snail in a fantasy of rebirth. It plays like the fever dream of some millennial impresario. Call him Siegfried Roy Webber...
...ailments that attend decrepitude. The town is seen as a doddering, muttering, pest-ridden bag lady. New York can hardly remember the glory days when it was an empress, exquisite in its elegance and clout. In that gilded time, Manhattan was also the world's show-biz Mecca, a glamour magnet of theater, department stores and cafe society. Today those species are endangered or extinct...