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...Take the Great Depression of the 1930s. While attendance at U.S. baseball and football fixtures slumped, the games' following through newspapers and radio took off. Stories of gritty players overcoming adversity to triumph on the field were printed "almost ad nausea," says Crepeau. From the economic misery, heroes offered a diversion. When Joe Louis fought back to beat German Max Schmeling for the world heavyweight boxing crown in 1938, he later said, "the whole damned country was depending on me." Australia's greatest Depression heroes were a cricket player and a horse. Populated by local working class heroes, English soccer...
It’s good to be the best. Hot off back-to-back Ivy League championship seasons, Harvard football is sitting before a plate piled high with expectations. The 2009 Ivy League preseason media poll gave Harvard a decisive 10 first-place votes, while Penn took four and Brown three. Harvard is also the only Ivy League team to crack the Football Championship Series (FCS, formerly Division 1-AA) Top-25 poll—earning the No. 25 spot. With the bar set so high, the Crimson is again the team to beat...
...American “Office” had an almost identical script to that of the British premiere. Slough became Scranton, Tim became Jim, and in one memorable punchline, “Camilla Parker Bowles” became “Hillary Clinton.” It took a uniquely American episode—the all-around-genius “Diversity Day,” written by B.J. Novak ’01—to win us over. Best of all, we found the U.S. “Office” to be populated with wonderfully bizarre secondary...
...high note, “The Resistance” is a mixed bag. It includes both a couple of Muse’s best songs, and a couple of their worst. As an album, it flows neither thematically nor musically. In fact, it sounds a little like Muse took their nine favorite songs from the recording session, threw them together in no particular order and called it a day. “Uprising,” “Undisclosed Desires” and “Exogenesis Symphony” alone might make a five-star EP?...
9/11 • detailed account of the ignoring by Bush, Cheney, Tenet, Rice and Rumsfeld of the increasingly ominous warnings about the imminence of the attacks that took place...