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...example, the World League offers the two-point conversion after a touchdown. And on kickoffs, a flat tee is used to make higher kickoffs more difficult, thus encouraging the Rocket Ismail-type return. The newest change is the overtime system. During the 10 minute overtime, each team gets to possess the ball of offense, at least once. The team that scores the most points wins. If the score is still tied after 10 minutes, the game ends...

Author: By Gordon P. Bellamy, | Title: Tackling the World | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...Florida A.C.L.U., argues that Melton's sweeping order, which barred male workers from bringing sexually suggestive materials to work, would have applied as readily to a newspaper brassiere ad as to the crude posters that offended Robinson. Beyond that, she says, Melton's ruling that workers cannot even possess the pornographic calendars clearly violates their First Amendment rights. (One quirk of the case: by shipyard practice, employees could not bring newspapers or magazines to work -- but the pornography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passions Over Pornography | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Anarchy has a thousand faces in Somalia. The men with the guns call it liberation, but it is freedom without responsibility, humanity, compassion, future or hope. Freedom to kill and the right to die. Freedom to liberate the weak from all they possess, wives from their husbands, children from their parents; freedom to liberate anyone from the burden of life in a power struggle that is destroying the last vestiges of society and human dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalia I Against My Brother | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...poverty lies a sea of children, born and bred, or born and brought, to East New York. The cycle is obvious and it is apparent on the faces in the pictures. The young kids in East New York today will inherit about as much hope as their older sibling possess, and they in turn absorb the desperation and the pain of James Sinkler and Linda Moore...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Despair in Brooklyn | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Apparently, little changed in Kahn's view of the Games between 1976 and 1984, and the one outstanding characteristic of his writing is its appreciation of equity. Kahn has little use for the all-star, the quadruple-gold medal winner. He even seems to possess a desperate hope that, somehow, the Games will actually be a fair, level playing ground devoid of the big kid on the block. It is this spirit that motivates his wonderful encapsulation of 1984's Olympic king, Peter Ueberroth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SCRIBE OF THE OLYMPICS: FOLLOWING THE NEW YORKER'S E. J. KAHN, JR. | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

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