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There are no dominant teams in the NFL this year, just hot ones. And every strictly-for-entertainment league watcher loves heat. Witness the increasingly bloated bandwagon on Kansas City simply because the team had a couple of good Sundays in Arrowhead. After a 30-0 pounding of the Raiders coupled with a Broncos loss to the Steelers, NFL pundits are rumbling that the team featuring 107-year running back Marcus Allen, who was a Raider on the last AFC team to win the Super Bowl back when Chelsea was a wee lass, could go all the way. Which leads...
Nanaho Sawano, a senior in Dunster House, is an implacable royal-watcher. This commentary is the first in a series of three appearing on consecutive Mondays about royalty as a political institution...
John Goodall, a river watcher with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, stood on a bridge over a picturesque stretch of King's Creek last week tugging at his bright red fisherman's overalls and frowning as he looked down at his catch. With a single toss of his net, Goodall had pulled up 14 perky-looking menhaden, a finger-length bait fish native to Maryland's Eastern Shore. But on closer inspection, all except one of the fish turned out to have ugly red-brown lesions across their silvery skin, where bacteria were literally eating them alive. "It's just horrific...
...sometimes difficult to believe that all these detectives are working for the same police force. If you're a steady watcher of NYPD Blue, you get the impression that concern about a backed-up criminal-justice system in New York City must be a thing of the past. Watching perpetrators spill their guts to Detective Sipowicz, you can envision a forlorn-looking New York trial judge sitting on his bench in an empty courtroom, hoping that this will be the day when a defendant comes...
...hurtling toward an even more intrusive world. We're all being watched by computers whenever we visit Websites; by the mere act of "browsing" (it sounds so passive!) we're going public in a way that was unimaginable a decade ago. I know this because I'm a watcher too. When people come to my Website, without ever knowing their names, I can peer over their shoulders, recording what they look at, timing how long they stay on a particular page, following them around Pathfinder's sprawling offerings...