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With the new sitcom, for better or for worse, the O’Keefes once again face the possibility of turning their often painfully unconventional childhood into a national phenomenon...
...root cause of this kind of sensationalized coverage is the radically new phenomenon of embedded journalists. For the first time in the modern history of war—and in stark contrast to Gulf War Part I where journalists were completely banned from the battlefield—reporters are traveling side by side with the soldiers that are invading Iraq. In a setting where journalists are not only in constant close personal contact with the soldiers, but also dependent upon them for their physical safety, it is inevitable that they will not feel comfortable criticizing the actions of the troops...
Baseball ranks up right up there with—dare I say it—apple pie as a prototypical “American” phenomenon, and for good reason. As the most affordable of the major professional sports, baseball-in-the-flesh is accessible to more stratums of society than, say, football. It’s also a melting pot, boasting an incredibly diverse array of players with the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Korea, Japan and, yes, Canada among the countries represented. There’s truly something for everyone at the ballpark...
...hear the music, but what did that matter? The Beatles' sheer presence was the point--their air of wholesome charm and cheeky wit, their instinctive connection with their audience. (It would be another couple of years before albums like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper showed that they were a musical phenomenon...
...with Combs), says the jerseys have helped boost the company's annual sales to $25 million in 2002 from just $2.8 million in 2000. That makes Mitchell & Ness, formerly a little-known supplier of quaint 1930s-era wool baseball jerseys, the latest "urban gear" phenomenon. Other customers include Allen Iverson, the rapper Eve and a growing coterie of buyers in Asia...