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Indeed, even in Japan, whale meat isn't that popular. Though some coastal towns have hunted whale for centuries, relatively few Japanese ate whale regularly before the postwar years, which is when it took off. What changed? Blame U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, head of the U.S. occupation of Japan, who...
As Leverett HoCo visited freshmen with real housing letters in hand, the Lampoon did some express delivery of their own with fake Leverett housing letters. Some of the freshman recipients were not even assigned to the House.
The stars, in other words, were not exactly aligned for a backroom bipartisan deal. Dodd tried anyway - first with Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on his committee, and after that crashed and burned, with Corker, a junior member of the committee who seemed more open to a compromise. Over the...
Some critics have blamed these measures for making races less exciting. Drivers complained that the Car of Tomorrow limited their ability to drive aggressively. Harsher penalties for tough on-track tactics - in a motor sport in which "trading paint" used to be the norm - also contributed to more conservative driving...
The problem is NASCAR's policing, claim some racing insiders. "They were micromanaging the sport to death," says Fox NASCAR analyst and 1989 Daytona 500 champ Darrell Waltrip. "We weren't at a crossroads - we were on the wrong road. We went from race cars to safe cars, and it...