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...field conflicts or determining the relative harm of individual and group celebrations, but of attempting to legislate sportsmanship. Initially, expecting players not to be joyous seems unreasonable. If you were 25 and being paid millions of dollars to play a boy's game, wouldn't you be inclined to whoop it up in the end zone every so often...
This was a millennium celebration spectacular in its lack of imagination and permanence. So we shot off some fireworks, drank some booze and dumped some confetti on our shrinking world. Whoop-de-do! Where are the articulated dreams of Utopia? Does this shallow and short-lived celebration portend the new age's dawning? BRIAN WAID West Seattle, Wash...
...Brothers, who went on to a notable TV career, attributes the appeal of the '50s quiz shows to lucky timing: "We were in a race with Russia to prove we were brighter, better, more intelligent," she says. "Today that's no big whoop." Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, agrees. "Back in the '50s, this was a rare instance where intellectualism and knowledge were really celebrated," he says. "Education had suddenly become a very, very front-page, desirable commodity. Bear in mind that these quiz shows are playing right about...
...cockpit door opens again. The master alarms start to whoop. A voice demands, "What's going on?" or "What's happening?" Then the same voice urges, "Pull with me! Pull with me!" Twenty-seven seconds into the dive, the horizontal elevators on the tail that normally operate in tandem to stabilize the aircraft wrench in opposite directions: the left side pulls to make the plane climb, the right one pushes to keep it in a dive. Gravity and the two powerful Pratt & Whitney engines on the Boeing 767 continue to force the plane down. A second later, a small shield...
Muhammad said he had a political flyer for a Cambridge City Council candidate on his door that was taken down on Saturday. He put it back up, only to find it taken down again. Finally, at about 2 a.m., he was awakened by a loud "war whoop," followed by the sound of someone crashing into his door...