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Many officials, including PAC-10 Commissioner Thomas Hansen, raised the specter of the decision to go ahead with NFL football games the weekend after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ’40 on Nov. 22,1963. While the NFL was roundly criticized for carrying on with its schedule, the NCAA was praised for postponing its games in the aftermath of that national tragedy...
...varied reactions in the Ivy League mirror those across the nation as other athletic conferences debated yesterday about the status of weekend football games. The Pacific Athletic Conference (PAC-10), Big East and Atlantic Coast Conference decided yesterday to postpone all league games. The seven other major Division I-A conferences will allow games...
...election.) Gephardt worked the phones to stanch hemorrhaging by Democrats, who provide the bulk of support for the bill. McCain, who shepherded a similar measure through the Senate last April, targeted some 40 GOP congressmen who've backed reform in the past. His Straight Talk America PAC, for example, sent e- mails to 200,000 supporters across the country urging them to flood the congressional offices with phone calls...
Bonds has always had good power numbers, but his emergence, at 36, as the game's premier long-ball hitter is inexplicable. In 2000 the Giants moved into Pac Bell Park, whose cozy right-field dimensions (307 ft. down the foul line) were designed with Bonds' left-handed bat in mind. Still, half of his home runs this year have come on the road. "I think it's harder to hit home runs in Pac Bell than it was in Candlestick," Bonds says of the Giants' old windswept home. "If I get to 50 this year, I'll be happy...
...death of pac-man was not an event that cried out for a symphonic requiem. So the music for the earliest video games was often simple and silly--there were beeps and buzzes, whines and whistles. Although one's pulse may have been quickened, real sentiment was never stirred. In those days, recalls composer Nobuo Uematsu, 42, "no one really paid attention to game music." Now, as video-game story lines and imagery grow complex enough to evoke deeper emotional responses, the music is evolving too. In Japan several composers, including Mamoru Samuragoch (Onimusha) and Yoko Shimomura (Legend of Mana...