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...athletes, the scope of the athletic community is limited to those who participate in highly visible sports—football, men’s and women’s hockey, and men’s and women’s basketball, for instance. Those teams attract the largest fan base and their members have come to typify the “jock” norm at many of the nations’ colleges...
...that Craigslist has become one of the Web's Top 20 portals, with 5.3 million visitors a month to its job and real estate listings, for-sale postings and personals? How has it grown exponentially from a narrow base in San Francisco and New York City to 45 cities, from Orlando, Fla., to St. Louis, Mo., to Fresno, Calif.? How has it managed to spread its wings abroad in Canada and Britain, with Australia next on its horizon? How has it managed to do all that--when other, more capitalized businesses have withered away...
...teams are taking a very different approach as far as looking at young players, moving away from some of the physical things that mattered in the past and focusing on drafting and bringing in baseball players. For my performance, there are statistics that have always mattered to me--base runners per nine innings, hits and walks per inning pitched, opponents' batting average. Things like that, to me, are indicators of a pitcher more than anything...
...president?” For his part, Nader responded obstinately, often attacking the questioner instead of his or her logic. Throughout the question and answer session a contingent of Lyndon LaRouche supporters also rudely catcalled, heckled and chanted over Nader and other attendees in a fairly base display of disrespect...
...Ghost Is Born, Wilco flaunts their range of abilities. While some songs, such as “Wishful Thinking,” resurrect a gentle acoustic aesthetic, others, like “Spiders (Kidsmoke),” expose new layers of Wilco’s now larger instrumental base, showing off the talents of the band’s newest member, electronic specialist Mikael Jorgensen. Both songs comprised the heart of Wilco’s main set, which stuck mainly to the new album but managed to dip back for some older classics...