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Despite the literary aspirations of those big names, the trend in sports coverage almost everywhere is away from elegant prose and toward number crunching: in sports, there is a statistic for practically everything. The message has not been lost on the National. Says columnist Kindred: "We hope to have pretty...
As America enters the next decade, it does so with an appalling legacy of gun violence. The 1980s were tragic years that saw nearly a quarter of a million Americans die from handguns -- four times as many as were killed in the Viet Nam War. We began the decade by...
U.S. officials announced Jan. 9 that 220 "unarmed civilians not involved in fighting and street disorders" had been killed in violence "directly related" to the invasion -- an ominously qualified statistic. But even that number, which has been challenged, is proportionally equivalent to 22,000 Americans. Add 314 Panamanian troops, and...
The regional ups and downs belie the popular image of the U.S. as a single, monolithic marketplace where similar economic conditions prevail from coast to coast. While most experts expect the U.S. economy to expand at an anemic rate of 1% to 2% this year, vs. nearly 3% in 1989...
"I don't know if any statistics are significant because the score was so lopsided," Roby said. "That's what I mean about the stress test. You've got to make those free throws when the game is in doubt. When you're down 27 at the half, I don...