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Sure, I have the purist's usual laundry list of complaints. The designated hitter, artificial turf and domed stadiums are all incarnations of Satan himself. World series games telecast late at night exclude the youngest generation, crippling baseball's future popularity. This year, however, a larger crisis looms.
Numbers, poets complain, are soulless things, the anonymous rungs of infinity. But it is hard to talk about Billy Graham, the great reaper of souls, without talking about numbers. This is the man who has preached in person to more people than any human being who has ever lived. What...
That is, until Norman got a gander at an artist's sketch of the proposed store. "It made me sick," he says. "There was this three-level building, this antiseptic, big white monster. It was like letting a 300-lb. gorilla into your living room." But town leaders were already...
Cities will fall all over themselves to serve up tax abatements, new stadiums, and bond issues in order to attract or retain professional sports teams. All these expensive goodies must come out of the cities' purses and hence out of the taxpayers' pockets. Their direct beneficiaries are wealthy franchise owners...
Professional sports teams may be a great source of civic pride, but they are by no means a great source of civic prosperity. Construction of new stadiums create jobs like any construction project.