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...clan. That honor belongs to his great-grandson, Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74), the linchpin of this show. He was installed as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany after his uncle Alessandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor - which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated the production of visual meaning and the consumption of art in the city, rather as the ownership of a local TV station...
...mission to outdo its own unprecedented acts of staggering cheapness in the area of toilet paper purchasing, Harvard has deemed the bare bones basic cable package sufficient to meet its institutional cable television needs. But as every “Sopranos” fanatic knows, basic cable is simply inadequate...
...most tangible legacy of Asia's first Cup are the 20 new or refurbished stadiums scattered across the co-host nations. Neither country needed so many venues, considering that France held the tournament with only half as many arenas. Yet, each co-host was determined to outdo the other, every architectural wonder spurring on its long-standing rivalry. South Korea and Japan spent $2.7 billion and $4.6 billion on infrastructure, respectively. The Korean city of Daegu blew its entire annual budget in the lead-up to the tourney, constructing Korea's largest Cup stadium even though this town...
...addition to its pitching strength, another encouraging Crimson trend was its ability to outdo its opponents on the basepaths. The poised freshman catcher Miller caught a Terrier stealing to give Crimson opponents just eight steals on 12 attempts this season. Stefanchik gave Harvard its 33rd steal in 37 attempts, a tribute to Allard’s preseason change of philosophy and some healthy drills in the offseason...
...even clear that ID can outdo Darwinism in the realm of spiritual consolation. Some of ID's leading figures push God way back in evolutionary time. The philosopher and Baylor University professor William Dembski argues in mathematical language that natural selection, to create life as we know it, must have received some kind of external input. But he allows that this input could be something quite abstract, embedded in the early context of evolution--perhaps in "boundary conditions" that "constrain" genetic mutation...