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...Francisco Giants baseball team is already using L-VIS (Live Video Insertion System, pronounced Elvis) on this season's home-game broadcasts, placing logos and ads behind home plate. ESPN is also hoping to use the system for this fall's college football games. Stations in Spain and Mexico are experimenting with even more dramatic effects, such as showcasing sponsors smack in the middle of a soccer field...
Professor Kilson's temporal estimation is perhaps the most confusing part of his letter. "Precisely when that mature stage of a redeeming process vis-a-vis whites' maiming of black souls through American slavocracy will be fulfilled is anyone's guess." It is "perhaps another century away...The time required for the violators of Jewish and black souls to fulfill a viable redeeming process has not yet transpired...
...case between World War II and the late 1960s, "we must tie the value of the dollar to a fixed measure, such as gold, so that a dollar today will be worth a dollar tomorrow." He also argues that using the gold standard to fix the dollar's value vis-a-vis other currencies would boost world trade...
...still in its nascent state--some 131 years since the end of the Civil War, mind you--a tragic yet necessary event without which neither I nor Rev. Gomes would be arguing these matters here today at Harvard University. Precisely when that mature stage of a redeeming process vis-a-vis whites' maiming of black souls through American slavocracy will be fulfilled, is anyone's guess. My intuition tells me that it certainly has not been reached in our era any more than a mature stage of a redeeming process vis-a-vis Germany's genocidal violation of Jewish souls...
...knee being a matter far too subtle for a mere movie reviewer to contemplate, he is left with broader, possibly less relevant, judgments to pass. Chief among them is this: Braveheart is too much, too late. Gibson, who directs himself in Randall Wallace's screenplay, starts with certain disadvantages vis-e-vis Rob Roy: Sir Walter Scott never wrote a novel about William Wallace, and no one named a cocktail after him either. Got a real name-recognition problem here. Got a real length problem too. Braveheart runs almost three hours, and though it's full of incident, including several...