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This I understand. When my beloved Washington Redskins made it to the Super Bowl in 1992, I was in Moscow and the Russian networks weren't showing the game. I called my father who, before he went out to watch the contest with friends, hammered a nail in the wall next to the kitchen radio and hung the receiver. For four hours I sat in my frigid Moscow office listening to the game, occasionally clenching my fist in triumph. The Internet has responded to that need. Games are now tracked play-by-play and broadcast live online, often for free...
...biggest "subsidy" Cheney and company are proposing (besides the tossed-in tax breaks for conservation) is for transmission - a national electrical grid, for better distributing the power that gets made. It'll be a tooth-and-nail fight with the kind of property-rights stalwarts that are a traditional Republican constituency, but it ought to get done, if only because a power line doesn't care what kind of power - coal, solar, wind, nuclear - it transmits...
...their heads down and gone for the Final Two to let the votes fall where they may. By the looks of things, five of the seven player-judges were split according to their personal visions of who was the better player. But Jerri and Keith were both out to nail Colby, and that did it. The blithe nurse turns out to have been an evil genius all along...
After a five-run rally in the ninth inning gave Harvard an 8-6 lead, Crimson junior Nick Carter failed to nail down the save in the bottom of the inning, giving up three runs as UMass snagged...
...Crimson (22-19, 11-3 Ivy) sailed in the early game, winning 6-0. It lost a nail-biter in the second contest, as Harvard was out dueled, 1-0 in eight innings...