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...stepping on the little guy, the taxpayer," says Pringle, who claims that under the pre-1996 contract the city would have received $11.5 million more from the team last season. The Angels note that Anaheim is still in the title. A trial is set for November; an injunction to revert to the former name until then has already been rejected (and is under appeal). "The name change stinks," says Nancy Chavez, 52, a 15-year season ticketholder from Orange County who seriously considered dropping her ticket package this year. "We are not L.A. It's a slap in the face...
TIME You don't have that many watersheds left, no matter how old you live to be. So, let me revert to my first question: What does it feel like bringing the Star Wars saga to a conclusion...
...feel like the seventh graders hanging out in the Square are enjoying themselves more than you are, then it’s time to revert to middle-school style fun. Arcades provide a perfect—well, perfectly adequate—getaway from the struggling Harvard party scene. Recreate the days of braces, stirrup-pants, and LA Lights with a marathon session of Skee Ball, and forget all about final exams and that awkward conversation with the cute girl from section. After all, who needs a girlfriend when you’ve got Ms. PacMan...
...course, as two fledgling rockers straight out of Harvard, Wilkis and drummer Pete Kennedy ’03 have every reason to be self-conscious. They ask us to share all their passionate twentysomething angst, then quickly revert to some wry goofiness and slapstick machismo to assure us, and themselves, that they really don’t give that much of a damn...
...Chinese government handles them. The signs domestically since the disaster of the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989 have been reassuring, but the challenges are enormous. China's foreign policy skills will also be tested as it manages what it calls its "peaceful rise." Will it revert to traditional Middle Kingdom ways of thinking about its neighbors and thereby generate a backlash? It is not just relations between Beijing and Washington that Australia may have to navigate skillfully, but relations between Beijing and Tokyo (still by far Australia's largest export market) as well. To deal with the challenges ahead, Australian...