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...definitely do [feel like now is the time],"Brandt says. "As a senior who does not have afuture in pro basketball, this is my last chanceto enjoy the pure adrenaline and the exhaustionand the comraderie that comes with team sports...
...talk of the government's spending billions to build the "information superhighway." Then that highway sprang up overnight. Although the roots of the Internet are in the Defense Department, the Web's sudden arrival as a society-transforming force is largely the result of capitalism in almost textbook-pure form: not IBM or even Microsoft, but vast crowds of garage-shop inventors and hungry entrepreneurs...
...couldn't get it you rig it or buy it. That's the problem people are having with it." The critics harbor a more obvious sexism. Women's sports--perhaps because they're in a protected, infant stage--involve consensus in a way that doesn't jibe with pure, aggressive competition, critics say. If women are going to turn sports into some chick soap-opera drama, they argue, then perhaps women shouldn't be given the hardwood floor...
...those who prefer the safety of government control to the anarchy of individual freedom. Very few people understand the Faustian bargain they have made. This shop is dedicated to those who have rejected the bargain. It is open to those who might reconsider." "Anarchy"? "Faustian bargain"? That's pure bohemia. Packed 12-foot bookshelves tower above Beringer and Johnnie Walker boxes overflowing with books. Rolling metal ladders facilitate browsing. Old black-and white postcards of Dorothy Parker and Charles Baudelaire cover the ends of the shelves. A dark gray cat named Blue stalks the aisles, and its owner (also owner...
...illegitimately. That is to say, both broke the standards of their respective sports. That athletes would have such an urge is not surprising. That the domineering sense of compassion allowed them to indulge their urge is instructive. It seems that the last bastion of objective, fair standards and pure excellence is at last succumbing to the ubiquitous compassion of modern society. CSN should expect even more success...