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...just rallying around the flag - they?re rallying around their president. According to a new TIME/CNN poll, 84 percent approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as president, up from 78 percent two days after the attacks - and in a different sphere entirely from the mid-50s plateau he occupied throughout the spring and summer...
Ryan, who eclipsed the 2,000 yard mark for his career with his 128th yard on Saturday, scored his first touchdown of the season on a six-yard jaunt with12:04 remaining in the fourth quarter. Ryan becomes only the seventh Quaker to hit that plateau...
...Biennale does little to tie all of these elements together into a coherent overall exhibition. Admittedly, connecting circus posters with photographs of execution cells is a daunting task, but Director Harald Szeemann’s title “Platea dell’umanita,” (Plateau of Humankind) proves too grandiose to be noble. It remains unclear what, exactly, is the on this plateau: Is it the exalted artists? Is it the ideas of (in)humanity that they express? Or is it the Biennale itself? The implication seems to be that visitors are free to take their pick...
...given this disappointing turn of events, poor Mike Mussina concluded that he would never get to the perfect plateau that three of his pinstripe predecessors had reached...
...financially motivated loss of Griffey, Rodriguez and fireballer Randy Johnson in 1998 was supposed to consign the Mariners to eternal mediocrity. They had just reached a new plateau in the 1995 post season by coming from two games behind to edge the Yankees in a best-of-five game series that remains among the most exciting in recent years. Now they were being stripped apart, one star at a time, by baseball's merciless economics...