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...iTunes on my computer plays like a broken record. All I hear anymore is Queen’s “We Are the Champions.” Bostonians certainly paid their dues, time after time, before being rewarded by the Red Sox, but Super Bowl XXXIX somehow seems like it came too easily...
Comparisons abound as the New England Patriots gear up for their Sunday night battle against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX. While commentators hem and haw over how the Patriots match up to former football powers, there is one certainty: a resounding victory. Becoming only the second team in history to win three Super Bowls in four years, New England will continue to walk right into the history books...
AtthePhiladelphiaEagles'practicecomplex one day last week, the producer of quarterback Donovan McNabb's weekly local TV show asked if he would be available for an interview a day before Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Fla. With mock seriousness, McNabb warned that the hoopla of the game, between the Eagles and defending champion New England Patriots, might leave him stretched for time. "Worst case, just get some guy off the street in Jacksonville to go on," McNabb joked. He then found a problem with that plan. "The guy would say, 'Donovan who? A quarterback? You mean...
Despite threatening skies and nippy autumn air, thousands of spectators descended on the banks of the Charles this weekend to watch some of the world’s top crews in the fall’s premier rowing event—the XXXIX Head of the Charles Regatta...
...enormous word skill gives the translation felicity. But his very range of language allows him to choose words which, although exact in meaning, do not give the flavor of the original, generally because they are too highflown or arcane. The simple Russian word for "horned" (Ch. 6, XXXIX) becomes "cornute," which means horned but is not a simple English word. Simple words for "sweetness" and "youth" become "dulcitude" and "juventude" in English (Nabokov excuses himself somewhat abashedly by pointing out that the sense of the couplet-a sneer at moon-June versifying-requires that in this case the words rhyme...