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...given week, around 3 million people play bingo across the U.K. and almost half are under 45; 10 years ago, the average age was 55. The electronica band Lemon Jelly opened recent concerts with a bingo game instead of a supporting band. "Bingo is the only female-dominated leisure pursuit," says Richard Sowerby, marketing director for Gala Group, one of Britain's two biggest bingo operators. "We target women in their mid-to-late thirties because they're equally happy to go along with their mothers or sit alongside someone who's 19. It's a secure environment, as opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Your Mother's Bingo | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

...document of democracy—governments are artificial creations, established by the people, “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and charged by the people to ensure the equal right of all to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Furthermore, as the Declaration says, “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish...

Author: By Howard Zinn, | Title: Thoughts of a Patriot | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

...country. It is the country that is primary—the people, the ideals of the sanctity of human life and the promotion of liberty. War is almost always (one might find rare instances of true self defense) a breaking of those promises. It does not enable the pursuit of happiness but brings despair and grief...

Author: By Howard Zinn, | Title: Thoughts of a Patriot | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the highest creed of any patriotic American. What better way to spend the holiday than perusing pornographic videos or purchasing a lap dance in Boston’s Combat Zone! City zoning confines the sex shops and strip clubs to this notorious part of Chinatown. How P.C., Boston...

Author: By Caroline L. Donchess, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You Say You Want (to Remember) a Revolution? | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

...Crimson posted a second-round 325 en route to an overall score of 666, but its opening-day 341 hindered Harvard in its pursuit of the eventual champion Bears...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Water-logged Beginning Leaves W. Golf Fourth | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

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