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...crumbling terracing; in came safer seating and improved facilities that made fans feel more like spectators than animals. And as the game began rebuilding its domestic appeal, a handful of chairmen with a sharper eye for profits made a bold move. For years, the top teams had threatened to split from England's four-tier, 120-year-old Football League, claiming that with a domestic game in the doldrums and top clubs impotent against Continental opposition, they needed a greater say over their own affairs - and the enhanced broadcast revenue they thought they could win. In 1992, England...
...only is the percentage of participation very small online, there are some very strong skews as to who is participating. Visitors to Wikipedia are almost equally split 50/50 men and women, yet edits to Wikipedia entries are 60% male. The gender gap is even greater for YouTube, a site whose visitors are equally male and female, but whose uploaders are over 76% male...
...tumultuous marriage to mathematician Mileva Maric in 1903. Unable to convince Maric to agree to a divorce, Einstein made a bet with his wife. According to Isaacson, if and when he won his first Nobel Prize, he would give the prize money to Maric in exchange for the desired split. Unfortunately for Einstein, Isaacson said, he didn’t win the prize until 1921. “They had a contemptuous relationship,” he said. Einstein also weathered contempt because of his Jewish heritage. “Anti-Semitism is rising in Europe, so this gets labeled...
...record will show that Mather House fired the first shot. On Sunday night, while the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC) split hairs about paying for club sports and ultra-chic fashion shows, the Mather House Council (HoCo) voted to secede from Harvard University. The causus belli: a foam machine...
...right time to make the change and we had planned to split the games anyway,” Allard said...