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...Consider the A-Rod deal a Dr. Phil-esque opportunity for national self-realization. Americans haven't been underdogs since 1812. We like to remember the Alamo because we fought long odds and had to give up an entire building; the Mexicans remember Texas. If ever a country's character demanded that it root against the underdog, it's ours. We are the country of crushing, monolithic corporations - of McDonald's, Wal-Mart and companies such as Aramark, Cendant and Sysco that are so powerful we don't even know what they do. We crush foreign dictators for looking...
...liked his story on the sport of Extreme Ironing, described by its inventor, Phil ?Steam? Shaw of Leicester, England, as ?the latest outdoor activity that combines the thrill of an extreme sport with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt.? At the Extreme Ironing World Championships in Munich two years ago, athletes competed in five events: forestry, rock-wall, aquatics, vehicular and freestyle. With the tilted gaze of a visionary, Steam has eyes on the 2008 Olympics: ?If they can have synchronized swimming, why can?t they have Extreme Ironing?? His friend, Matthew ?Starch? Patrick, remains skeptical: ?I wouldn...
...addition to scheduling concerns, issues to be discussed include academic profile, location, strength of program and ramifications to the current 12-team, three-weekend playoff structure that ECAC commissioner Phil Buttafuoco said has been “received very well” by the league’s member schools...
...screen, seems like as good a place as any to put the Microphones to rest, or at least their name. The anesthetized neon hotel rooms of Sofia Coppola’s Tokyo are the 21st century analogue to the lonesome Washingtonian shores from whence comes the music of Phil Elvrum, elfish folk matador behind the Microphones...
...Great Ghosts,” a guitar lullaby about exile, return and surrender that should be the Microphone’s swan song. Typically, tentatively, Elvrum howls: “As you can see / having descended the hill / I still look like me / I still wallow like Phil, and forever will.” The luminous ghosts of the Microphones past are haunting Elvrum and us, but in this live setting they’re lost in translation...