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...FOOTBALL FANS. The XFL's spectacular failure was a victory for authentic sports and a warning to the WWF and NBC, its founding partners, that even bloodsport fans have standards. They promised us smashmouth football; we got trashmouth football narrated by Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura and played by buffoons. Hooray for football fans who tackled this one for a loss...
...Senators, Congressmen and governors began their careers long ago as president of the senior class. They won the American Legion's "I Speak for Democracy" contest, or, like Bill Clinton, shined in Boy's Nation and posed in the Rose Garden. Then - except maybe in the case of Jesse Ventura - there ensued nothing more colorful or original than the grind through law school and after that - ambition, elections, shoeshines, smiles...
...accept free-lance, unconventional struggles in our politicians' biographies. We are grateful to have any real story at all, so lusterless and lawyerly and venal has the breed become. Jesse Ventura's battles as a wrestler may have been an arduous sham, but at least they had some screwball color, and the goofy, sweaty theatrics of struggle. But of course sham subverts struggle, and gives the audience nothing more nourishing than irony and cheap entertainment...
...Stephanie Ventura is a demographer for the National Center for Health Statistics, which produced the study. She explains a few of the intricacies of assembling the data...
...Stephanie Ventura: We get the rates of abortion from two sources. The first is the CDC Division of Reproductive Health, which uses a voluntary reporting system. State health departments provide counts and rates of abortions to them. The second is the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which conducts an abortion provider survey. They know about people who do relatively few abortions, who may not report to the state, so their numbers are higher that the state health departments...