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...over Heisman-trophy running back Ricky Williams as the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, Philadelphia's raucous fans booed McNabb before he took a single practice snap (Williams has since retired from football to travel, study holistic medicine and, by his own account, smoke weed). Rush Limbaugh thrust an unwitting McNabb into a firestorm in 2003 with his idiotic statement about black quarterbacks being overrated. Among veteran quarterbacks, McNabb has the highest winning percentage. But before this year, he had lost three straight NFC title games, sending Philly fans to the edge of the Schuylkill...
...John Alexander, "or you go backward." Technically, Federer is near to perfect. Roche certainly won't have to take apart and rebuild any of the Swiss's strokes, as he did with Pat Rafter's forehand in the 1990s. But maybe Federer could play a smarter game. The thrust of Alexander's argument is that because Federer's shotmaking from the baseline is so preposterously good, he can be a little lazy about advancing to the net for the quick kill. "It's not making any difference at the moment, but eventually his opponents will lift," says Alexander, who nominates...
When the team returns, they will be thrust back into the thick of the conference schedule, with home meetings against Princeton and Yale on January 28th and 29th...
...were meetings in his White House office. Techniques like waterboarding-in which a detainee is strapped down and made to believe he may be drowned-may have been discussed. Gonzales allowed that he could not quite recall specifically how he felt about waterboarding, but he did generally support the thrust of the Justice Department's decision to severely constrict the definition of torture. Senator Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin elicited Gonzales' acknowledgment that the new Bush Administration policy on torture had "migrated" to the CIA and Pentagon and from there to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Not one of the Senators bothered...
Fortunately, the crowd inside were witnessing a sight far superior to the modern-day horrors of Mick Jagger’s hip thrust. The Pixies’ entrance was somewhat anticlimactic, as there was no opening act (not even, as pre-show rumors had it, a magic show by Lovering), and thus no build-up to their performance. That’s not to say that they didn’t get things going quickly; rather, they took the Satanic Verses approach, beginning the set with the explosive “Debaser.” The song, the closest thing...