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...start with the biggee: the Truman factor. Both Bush and Clinton have explicitly tried to claim the legacy of Harry S Truman, A Democrat, as their own. Bush likes to see this campaign as a replay of 1948's "Dewey Defeats Truman" election, in which Truman, the incumbent, surprised everybody by coming from behind to win. Clinton, on the other hand, says he's more faithful to Truman's beliefs...
...forget. "In Europe we have a history that lives on in our gut," he said. "As a child, I remember cowering as the Germans goose-stepped by me. Never a day passed that my grandfather did not mention World War I. Today in Sarajevo it seems to be a replay...
...boats were so close, in fact, the judges had to resort to instant replay to select a winner. Dartmouth and Harvard remained on the water for 10 minutes before the judges announced the Crimson victory...
...with the vehicle's fire extinguisher, punched him and stole his wallet. Another fired a shotgun into him at close range. As a blood-soaked Denny called for help, he was hit with beer bottles and karate-kicked in the head. The whole macabre scene, like a mirror-image replay of the King beating, was broadcast live on a local TV station. Denny was eventually rescued by four black bystanders and taken to a hospital, where he underwent four hours of brain surgery...
...special, the most exhilarating documentary of the year. The old clips are irresistible and surprisingly fresh. In the very first sports telecast, a 1939 college baseball game between Columbia and Princeton, viewers couldn't even see the ball. Later came technical advances like the portable camera and the instant replay, and visionaries like ABC's Roone Arledge, who discovered that the thrill of victory could be the stuff of great drama. The program is packed with memorable highlights (Hank Aaron's 715th homer; Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 Olympics), but it doesn't ignore the lowlights, from...