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...follow,” he said.After stepping down, Skocpol said she will go on leave to work on the projects she was unable to address during her tenure as GSAS dean—one of which will be following the progress of the Patriots as they make their Superbowl bid, she said with a laugh.And Skocpol had a few words of advice for her successor on Sunday.“You better be able to work hard and you better be able to handle data and making presentations to lots of audiences,” she said...
...with the Superbowl, national networks now view baseball’s postseason as a goldmine for advertisement revenue. Between every half-inning and during every pitching change, there is now a commercial break of at least a few minutes. When there is a lot of money to be made (as in October), that means squeezing in, say, one extra minute of ads per break. The problem is that this squeezes at least 20 extra minutes into the baseball game...
...Ford would be historic, as he would be the first black Senator elected in the South in more than a century. Racial politics became a subject in the race last month when Republicans ran an ad attacking Ford for his attendance at a Playboy Superbowl party that included a blond white woman saying "Harold, call me' - which some Democrats said was an attempt to play on concerns about interracial dating. Corker himself denounced the ad, but the campaign has only gotten nastier and more heated as Election Day has approached...
...days corporate honchos will begin arriving en masse in Junket City - this year, that?s Detroit - for the Superbowl, a championship football game that many of those seated in the luxury boxes won?t even bother to watch. Why should they? Let's be honest - this shindig is all about the parties and perks. The only scores that matter is the Scores with topless dancers and cocktails not far from Ford Field. But this year corporate card-carrying spendthrifts had better be careful. The expense-account cops are out in force - or so we?re told - and business entertaining...
...star receiver for the Superbowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s, Lynn Swann was used to making his own winning plays. But in his race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in his home state of Pennsylvania, Swann may have just been handed the game, thanks to an ill-advised comment by his chief opponent's campaign manager. James Seif, a widely respected and seasoned political operative, was on the Pennsylvania Cable Network Wednesday night discussing the campaign of former Lt. Gov. Bill Scranton when he derided Swann as ?the rich white guy in this race.? Even though Seif seemed...