Word: tiered
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Sitting comfortably in the upper tier of the FleetCenter last week, I waited, hot dog in hand, for the start of the Celtics game. Just another mid-winter contest in the interminably drawn-out NBA season, against a visiting Houston Rockets team that does not have a particular rivalry with the Celts or Bostonians in general...
Even as searchers scoured much of the southern tier of the country for remains of the ship (and a smaller, more sacred swatch for remains of the crew), fresh theories and new clues abounded. Images of Columbia's demise were sent in by amateur videotapers, and reports of evidence were phoned in by freelance debris hunters. Part of the leading edge of one wing turned up near Fort Worth, Texas, while a rear wing section was examined in the eastern part of the state, near Nacogdoches. Researchers dug up old NASA memos warning of just the kind of accident that...
...Lawrence has shown it can beat some of the top tier teams but not the elite. St. Lawrence has wins over No. 4 Dartmouth and No. 5 New Hampshire, but was beaten handily by No. 3 Minnesota...
...plan has a more central, perhaps more plausible goal than getting Saddam to slink away. It involves persuading the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution granting amnesty to Iraqi officials who agree to cooperate with the U.N. The idea is that this would separate Saddam and the top tier of the ruling Baath Party from others in the regime who might be persuaded to save themselves and their country by overthrowing Saddam. The resolution would be designed to open a window just before a U.S. invasion began so that an Arab delegation would have a chance to direct...
...them, seeing as how they're starring in a reality show themselves. But this little incident epitomizes a key moment in the evolution of celebritus americanus, akin to the day Neanderthal man first came face to face with the Cro-Magnon: reality stars, and at least the lower tier of "real" celebrities, have become indistinguishable. As reality TV has turned the likes of Richard Hatch and Kelly Clarkson into cheap, commodified and replaceable mini-celebs, the culture of celebrity has changed. "In Hollywood," says David Perler, executive producer of reality show My Life Is a Sitcom...