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...outnumbered liberals who argued passionately that Nancy Cruzan's real wishes and interests had been ignored. William J. Brennan accused his colleagues of consigning the young woman to a "twilight zone" in which she might spend up to 30 years as a "prisoner of medical technology." John Paul Stevens charged that the court was treating Cruzan like an "abstraction" and that its decision "reveals a distressing misunderstanding of the importance of individual liberty...
...beginning, athletes play for the moment, for the sheer unmeditated joy of doing it. In mid-career they play for the money. At the twilight of fitness, they play for the memories, seeking one last accomplishment to etch their names in history. For the two dominant tennis players of the decade past, Ivan Lendl and Martina Navratilova, all the conceivable goals of a career have narrowed to one: the All-England Lawn Tennis championship, or Wimbledon, which starts this week and is the sport's premier tournament precisely because it is the most historic...
...early years, the contest was fairer. Young Nolan Ryan was the typical flamethrower: all power, no control. His fast ball could zip across the strike zone or into the twilight zone. Years before he became the strikeout leader, he was the all-time walk king. As Bob Feller notes in his new autobiography: "Walks by a power pitcher like Ryan or me are like strikeouts by a power hitter. If you swing hard, it's more difficult to control the bat. If you throw hard, it's more difficult to control the ball." But in recent years Ryan has taught...
Frankly, as our society was groping for a way out of the twilight of stagnation, it took us some time to become aware of the depths of the crisis. Today everyone is working against the clock. But we have already climbed a long, steep slope since the spring of 1985 ((when Gorbachev assumed power)). We did not do all that just to roll downhill again. Those five years have not been lost. We have gained experience; we have new knowledge, which we lacked at the first stage of perestroika. We have become wiser, we have learned to take a more...
...take a sports quiz. When do kickoffs happen in football? Answer: when the two-minute TV commercial break is over. Why are World Series games played on frigid October nights and on the West Coast in late-afternoon twilight? So viewers at home can watch in prime time. Why do basketball play-offs now include 16 of the N.B.A.'s 27 teams and last well into June, when the heat in old arenas like the Boston Garden can be stifling? Right again: so TV can have more potentially high-rated games. And if television didn't exactly create showboating antics...