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...Wait, the boxing bigwigs tell you. Look at the total viewership figures. On average, they say, four to five people get together to watch a big pay-per-view fight in someone's living room, lowering the per-person cost for a $50 bout. Fine. Assuming that for every household that purchased De La Hoya-Mayweather, five people saw it, that's 12 million viewers - not bad. Yet, even by this optimistic measure, boxing's biggest event this decade still couldn't outdraw the audience for last week's New England Patriots-Buffalo Bills regular season game on ESPN, which...
...Cole couldn't tell his own story, so his family recounted the saga to the hard-bitten Texas legislators this past spring. The convict had insisted he was innocent up until the day he died. He had refused parole because that would have required him to admit he was guilty of raping a fellow student at Texas Tech University. The ordeal was wrenching: Cole wept during the nights as he awaited a trial that would sentence him to 25 years in jail. Twice during his prison term he was found unconscious in his cell, a result of the asthma that...
...supporting characters rather flat. From the moment her husband gets involved with the FBI, Whitacre’s anxious wife (Melanie Lynskey) urges him to come clean: “Whatever you do, Corky, no matter what’s going on, just be honest with them and tell the truth.” But the audience forgets her presence in the film almost as easily as Whitacre forgets her advice. His wheedling coworkers suffer a similar fate; it’s only really possible to differentiate the other executives at ADM by their horrible ties. Most tragically, the comedic...
...describes a lingerie store and muses on its possible place in a speculative Guide Book to Imperial. His historical account of Imperial is equally thorough; “What were the Chinese up to in Mexicali? I promise that it will take me less than a hundred pages to tell you.” Then he proceeds to devote a ninety-page tangent to precisely that tidbit of history...
...have. By the morning of Sept. 17, the fourth day of the campaign, only 15 alleged perpetrators had been arrested. The National Police Agency says it plans to set up cameras on trains but has not said when that project will begin. In the meantime, women in Tokyo will tell you that a shrill scream, coupled with a jab of an umbrella or a stiletto, is the only defense when one doesn't have room to swing a purse...