Word: obviously
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Here's a thought: every dope in the world has got a cell phone. Give one to the ref, and have someone sitting in front of a TV call and overrule him when he blows it. Just do it on obvious blunders for now, and work out a better system in the off-season...
...spokesman Greg Aiello objects that "people can disagree about what's obvious." True enough. So let's set a standard. Let's use the end of the Jets-Seahawks game Dec. 6 at New Jersey's Meadowlands, seconds dying, Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde knifing for the goal line with the ball. Jimmy Hoffa might be somewhere in that end zone, but Testaverde was a crowbar short. Yet the Jets were given the touchdown that might have knocked Seattle out of the playoffs. "It's nonsense to say 'Let's wait,'" says Fox-TV analyst Tim Green, a former defensive...
...veteran balloonists had obtained permission to overfly southern China, but had to change course to avoid Iraq (for obvious reasons) and a storm over the weekend; they are now over the Himalayas, with no landing options in sight, and striving to to steer their craft southward. Meanwhile, their liaison on the ground -- along with the British government and former prime minister Edward Heath -- continues to make appeals to the Chinese. It's par for a rough course: Over the weekend, Libya gave the flight a last-minute reprieve after suddenly withdrawing permission. The hot-air balloon took off from Marrakech...
...obvious that Manning's goal is not to encourage promiscuity or the circulation of"sexually explicit material"--after all, these are government documents, not Playboy magazine...
...find this argument solid on intellectual grounds, but it can easily violate another cardinal American virtue: the defense of minority rights. It's obvious that religious people have a right to vote their beliefs, but the imposition of religious symbols on public discourse leave minorities feeling oppressed and fearing for their religious freedoms...