Word: meres
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This season horse racing has seemingly loaned out its nail-biting characteristics to ECAC hockey. With 12 games down and only 10 more league contests to go, a mere seven points separate the top seven teams. With no team breaking away from the pack, parity has become not only the trite watchword of the ECAC, but it has also become a clear reminder to all teams that the 1997-98 league title is still very much up for grabs. That is a concept which is a rarity in a league that has traditionally been dominated by one or two powerhouses...
...trying to give shape to what he stands for, Clinton still has trouble getting beyond a mere accounting of his accomplishments. Asked last week how he would define Clintonism, the President showed how far he has gone and how far he still has to go for an answer. He rambled through school uniforms, empowerment zones, Americorps and even the fact that he established a National Economic Council in the White House. Finally, coming around to his inability to win over his own party to the promise of free trade, he conceded, "I do think that...
...will future editions assess his eight years in office? He is already so sensitive to the question and what it implies, aides say, that the mere sight of the word legacy in print is enough to trigger an eruption of the famous Clinton temper. He knows well that, as historian Michael Beschloss notes, "most Presidents are really not in the heroic mode." To be one of the greats requires surmounting a crisis on the scale of the Civil War or the Great Depression, or having ideas strong enough to change the way an entire nation thinks...
None of this money would have been forthcoming had it not been for that gridiron great (at least in the eyes of NFL owners) Rupert Murdoch. The Australian-born boss of News Corp. has reordered the economics of sports. Murdoch views sports not as mere programming but as the foundation for establishing entire television (Fox) and satellite (British Sky Broadcasting) networks. From this perspective, it makes sense to pay more for the NFL than you can get back in advertising revenues. Murdoch fired that thunderbolt in 1994, paying $1.58 billion for the NFC package, 49% more than CBS had been...
...optimal moment to reflect on the true reason for that empire's fall--which, it could be argued, was not decadence, Christianity or post-orgy bulimia but rampant sports mania. At the height of the empire, the stadium was the centerpiece of every Roman town, dwarfing mere housing and temples. Loyalty to the chariot-racing leagues, with their colorful banners, eclipsed all political passions. When the barbarians attacked the gates of the Roman city of Hippo, no one much noticed because the groans of the dying soldiers on the wall were almost drowned out by the roar from the stadium...