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Still, the Vikings have more to prove than an ability to stomp their opponents. Over the years, they have suffered from a reputation as one of the league's most dysfunctional families. Several Vikings have piled up charges ranging from rape to assault to drunk driving to embezzlement. A provocative new book, Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the N.F.L. (Warner Books; $24), depicts the Vikings as emblematic of a troubling trend in the league. Authors Jeff Benedict and Don Yaeger estimate that 1 in 5 players has been charged with a serious crime. "NFL teams are recruiting...
Microsoft dismissed the memos as innocuous research reports. "Are you surprised by this?" asked a spokesman. "Any smart company keeps track of what's going on in the marketplace." If only to stomp...
...people around you to bring you up to speed...you can basically sit down as a layman and decide what's right and wrong for the country." And if it comes to Jesse vs. Hulk for the presidency? "I'd like to get him in the ring, to basically stomp...
...person, Franklin is sly and funny, but has melancholy, magic-drained eyes. The twice-divorced diva's life has sometimes had the hard, sad stomp of a blues song: in 1979 her father was shot by burglars, fell into a coma and died. Producer Jerry Wexler once wrote, "I think of Aretha as Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows...anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical aura...
Fortunately, Reynolds and her funkfilled crew still manage to put on a high-energy show that almost overcomes these obstacles. Although some cynics may write the show off as the precessor to such noise-fests as Stomp and Tap Dogs, Noise/Funk is much more than a mere display of men creating sounds with everyday objects. Although it starts off with an eardrum-shattering intro, the tone of the show quickly quiets down and the real story begins...