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Armed with an increasingly combative message that posits a tyrannical government as its main adversary, the 124-year-old organization is at peak power. Annual revenues for 1994 stood at $148 million, up 16% over the prior year, and membership has surged to a record 3.5 million members. "That's twice as many as the Christian Coalition," boasts Arizona sheriff Richard Mack. At the same time, the N.R.A. has developed a grass-roots network of political activists that, at a time of low voter turnout, is inspiring a new level of fear on Capitol Hill. "We have a political system...
...through the unglamorous venue of Little League baseball, by the '60s Cosell was a fixture at abc Sports, gaining a measure of attention because of his controversial support for Muhammad Ali when the boxer was stripped of his title for resisting the Vietnam draft. Cosell reached the peak of his influence with the Monday Night Football broadcasts of the '70s; his self-promoted willingness to "tell it like it is" brought a refreshing skepticism to the traditionally bland idolatry of "color" commentary. Ultimately, however, Cosell was immolated by his own verbal fire: slashing at colleagues, denouncing American sport itself...
...model vampto create a spacious aural landscape. The courseof each tune was directed more towards detailingthat landscape than drawing out the linearprogression typical of most jazz improvisation. Attimes, the screams emanating from Sander's hornseemed like fiery blasts from the bowels of theEarth as the group reached a peak of model frenzy.Sanders seemed incapable of sustaining theenergy-level that this type of music demands,though, so these moments of epiphany werefleeting. In fact, the most convincing solos wereplayed by bassist Steve Neel, whose playing wasboth energetic and inventive...
...were playing the third day in a row against a team that's much better than us," junior co-captain Kelly Granat said. "For us to have beaten them we would really have had to peak at the right time...
...That's a peak time for student use," he said. "And a lot of students log in on Sunday night. It couldn't have happened at a worse time...