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...Unfortunately, Mara doesn't sense any groundswell for change. "I think it will take something dramatic to happen in the championship game, or God forbid, the Super Bowl [which has never gone into overtime] for enough people to get concerned," Mara says. But why is the most decorated sports league in the land refusing to use some common sense? Mara's telling reply: "That's a fair question...
...when it is permitted to so carelessly meddle with the documents on which state and federal government are founded. Given that constitutions are meant to push back against fickle and sometimes bigoted democratic movements, states should protect their own order, and all their citizens, by insisting upon a super-majority threshhold when amendments are at hand. While this may be understood as a limitation placed on individual will, such a barrier would ultimately protect a state’s entire population from reckless legal dynamism...
...elect Barack Obama's rising-sun-over-the-horizon campaign iconography. Although there's no evidence that Pepsi modeled its logo on Obama's, the soda giant probably wouldn't mind riding the President-elect's wave of success, particularly his popularity among global youth. (See the Top 10 Super Bowl...
...that struggled mightily last season, posting a 3-11 mark in the Ivy League and an 8-22 record overall, something seems awry. To rise from the bottom to the top in one year, something big has to change. That something big was 6’10” super-recruit Andrew Van Nest. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the hopes the big man brought were for naught, as the power forward from Weston, Mass., is done for the year. Last week, the freshman suffered a shoulder injury, which will require season-ending surgery. Due to Ivy League rules, he does...
...Interpretations among those in the know in Italy vary. Some say the man known as Il Cavaliere sees the world as his personal stage, simply letting it all hang out in public like other super-rich and powerful people do in private, convinced that his humor and Italian charm will win over the world. Others discern a calculation in his off-the-cuff quips: to divide his opponents, to keep allied pretenders to his throne off balance, and most of all to simply keep the spotlight on himself. By now, having been elected Prime Minister three times, most...