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Well, at least I didn’t have to suffer through the acrobatics of Warren Moon and Kevin Bass the whole time I lived in Houston. The Rockets won it all twice, and the Dream Shake became a national phenomenon. The Astros separated themselves from the rest of the Central in the late ’90s, and the Killer B’s became regular playoff contenders (who inevitably choked in the first round, but that’s not the point). The heinous Bud Adams left town with the Oilers in tow, and we have a brand...
...distinguish between heroin and pot. In 1983, only 31% of Americans surveyed had tried pot; the new TIME/CNN poll puts the figure at 47%. And though pot use among teens is down from its '70s highs, parents sneaking joints when their kids are asleep is a fresh phenomenon. But the polls show that Americans still cling to pot's forbidden status, which is why the pro-pot people are working so hard. "You would think you would get a change, but you're not going to," says Charles Whitebread, a law professor at the University of Southern California...
Suggesting that self-segregation is a phenomenon unique to athletes, and that athletes aren’t interested in friendships with other students, is silly. Some athletes choose to block and socialize predominantly with other athletes; some social groups, whether based around ethnicity or extracurricular interest, choose to block and socialize predominantly with each other; each are aspects of any society, and none are inherently problematic. Human societies function in such a manner, and a simple fact of life is that people tend to choose to spend time with others who share their interests...
...special group of people who have been appointed—either by themselves or by the national media—to set forth their opinions and views on the pressing social issues of our time. West, some would say, is a typical example of a recently identified phenomenon: the public intellectual...
...seven weeks.” Skey expresses a contemptuous view of broad involvement in Harvard activities. Athletics, unlike many other extracurricular pursuits, breeds a subculture that values intensity and dedication to the exclusion of participation in outside activities. Skey’s comments are a sad reflection of this phenomenon...