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Call it an underdog, a dark horse, a seventh-round draft pick--just don't ignore the fall's best new series (based on the book and movie) any longer. This high school football drama is a moving, warts-and-all portrait of life in hard-up Dillon, Texas, nailing the fine points of small-town politics and faith that TV too often romanticizes or ignores. It's a poignant picture of what a championship team means to a town that can't afford to wait till next year...
Malkin urges the search committee not to pick someone who is “politically correct...
...Nouvel can pick his tasks, so why bathrooms? "It turned out I have something to say about taps," says Nouvel, 61. "We have technology now that lets us minimize our gestures; we can move forward into a kind of Darwinism of objects." Well, some of us can. Nouvel's designs, which include a shower system, faucets for bath and basin, a matte white bathroom sink and accessories from towel bars to soap dishes, aren't destined for just any member of the great unwashed: the faucet alone retails for $2,090. www.jado.com
...most teenagers can attest, the quality of pick-up games is often abysmally low. But when No. 5 Dartmouth and the No. 6 Harvard women’s hockey team face-off tonight in Hanover, N.H., the lineups will look like the best game of pick-up hockey that one might ever see: with a combined seven Olympians on the two teams, the opening face-off will comprise more than one sixth of the Canadian and American teams. In other words, three players with bronze medals and four with gold medals will grace the ice tonight. “It?...
...controversial through. As the Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, the incoming Minority Leader (at least as things stand at the moment) has noted, he can lose eight votes and still hold the line against any bill he does not want to pass. Majority Leader-to-Be Harry Reid has to pick up nine if he wants to get anything done...