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...involved. Send us to Saks to buy socks, and we're bored. But let us shop at eBay, with the clock ticking down on an item we really don't need and may not even want, and our sportsman's juices surge: It's the two-minute warning at Super Bowl XXXVI. (New England Patriots 20, St. Louis Rams 17.) For guys at an online auction, it's not just the getting that counts, it's the crushing of another bidder's acquisitive spirit. In the final seconds of an auction, we - all right, I - enter a last, astronomical...
...People working in the stock market are always looking for indicators of one sort or another—whether it’s skirt lengths or the Super Bowl,” said Soifer, who spent decades on Wall Street as an investment banker and research analyst...
With 2000's All That You Can't Leave Behind--an album that sold 4 million copies, spawned a $110 million--grossing North American tour and earned the band a Super Bowl half-time-show slot--U2 appeared to regain the coveted title of biggest and best band in rock 'n' roll. But neither Clayton nor Mullen Jr. could shake the feeling that the record had been overpraised by a public relieved to see aging rockers not thoroughly embarrassing themselves. "On the last album there was lots of good feeling," says Clayton, "but only Beautiful...
...audiencecame onstage and said entertainers like Goldberg represented "the heart and soul of America." He did not criticize the mayor of San Francisco when he broke the law to perform gay marriages. He condoned late-term abortions. He had nothing to say about Janet Jackson's Super Bowl breast flash. Unlike Al Gore, he did not even give a speech supporting faith-based social programs. To religious conservatives, he seemed a secular extremist...
...lives. We are too busy to be overcome by the aftermath of elections. We share key values. Ultimately, we all want to be able to live decent lives in peace and security. The presidential election almost seems to have taken on the quality of the World Series or the Super Bowl. We each have a favorite, but after the winner has been determined, we can go back to our regular lives. CHARLES K. STEIN Coram...