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...California's Silicon Valley, divorced from Debi's father since 1974. "A coach once advised Mom to rent a fur coat just for the nationals, but I did all right that year without the fur coat." Janice Thomas laughs and says, "They tell you it's to attract sponsorship money, as well as to look a certain part when you're away from the arena. I told them, 'Too bad.' I didn't want them changing me either...
Then there's the sponsor of the NASCAR circuit itself--a cigarette manufacturer. Though cigarette advertising is banned from the airwaves, the sponsorship of an entire event is a clever way of getting around...
...then there was the time that John Hancock took over the sponsorship of the marathon itself. It took the trouble of moving the finish line down Boylston St. from its traditional place in front of the Prudential Center and sticking it in front of the Hancock Building...
Brennan writes that, "The mere fact of school sponsorship does not, as the court suggests, license such thought control in the high school, whether through school suppression of disfavored viewpoints or through official assessment of topic insensitivity...
...might reasonably ask, does individual sponsorship, say by Rupert Murdoch, permit the suppression of viewpoints which he finds disfavorable? Could the First Amendment be meant to make the instrument of the press free...