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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...told Arizona to honor the holiday, threatening that “if anything was done to dishonor the memory of Dr. King,” the committee would vote to rescind the awarding of the Super Bowl to the state of Arizona. Even McCain’s midstream flip-a-roo was not enough; Arizona voters struck down the holiday, and the NFL ultimately changed the site of the 1993 Super Bowl from Tempe, Ariz. to Pasadena, Calif...

Author: By Carl L. Miller | Title: Razing Arizona | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...then, make commentary optional? At this point, to avoid grating commentary we flip between channels broadcasting the same event, but all this offers is our pick of interpretation, when the real interpreters should be ourselves. Why shouldn’t we be able to choose if we want to hear commentary at all? What if announcers only spoke during halftime and time-outs, as one friend would realistically turn to another only during a lull in the action? We could lose ourselves in the experience of the game much more easily without constant prattle, whether it’s that...

Author: By Diana McKeage | Title: Against Interpretation | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

...once spent three whole minutes watching him flip through the channels and stop on Country Music Television and watch an entire Brad Paisley music video in which a girl was crying about how either her boyfriend, truck, tractor, father, or American flag (I can’t remember which) left her at prom. It took my dad three minutes to decipher what was going on before he moved to MTV, completely oblivious as to what “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and “Run’s House” are about...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Welcome Diversion | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...refrain, “What does he know?” Alongside the lyrical self-consciousness present across the entire album—“When I was stuck he’d make me memorize elaborate curses / Tinctures and formulas to ditch the chori and flip the verses”—all this doubt alienates the listener, who will have a hard time finding any emotional anchor in the song...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MGMT | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...It’s definitely been a pattern for us, and I’m not really sure what we can do,” Cohen said. “I wish there was some switch we could just flip on, but I think that if we just stay more focused and keep our goals for the season in mind, we’ll be fine...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Lacrosse Falls Just Short in Ithaca | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

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