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...Game of Life, called Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values, arguing that recruited athletes are academically and socially unrepresentative of the student bodies at elite schools. And this summer, in the name of improving “representativeness,” the Ivy League raised its base academic standards for athletes and imposed regulations on all sports, rather than just football and men’s basketball and ice hockey...
...kids, particularly those from 8 to 12--the so-called tween group. Tweens enjoy such venerable tongue busters as SweeTarts and Laffy Taffy as well as such newer offerings as the Wonka candy line or the souped-up SweeTarts Shockers. The Shockers are ultrasour SweeTarts in a chewy fruit base that may be unpalatable to parents but are catnip to their kids. Young consumers also like it if candies have what manufacturers call play value. SweeTarts Gummy Bugs offer all the flavor punch of ordinary SweeTarts, with the added value of coming in insect shapes. "First...
TiVo is a strange phenomenon. While owners adore it with cultlike affection, its loyal-fan base remains relatively small--just 800,000 subscribers in the U.S. and Britain. That's nothing compared to the millions of VCRs out there. But by saving shows digitally to a hard drive--and offering features like Season Pass, which automatically records every episode of, say, Sex and the City--TiVo puts the VCR to shame. Trouble is, customers have been skittish about the subscription fee for TiVo service. So, to gain wider appeal, TiVo is expanding its satellite-TV offerings and teaming up with...
Perhaps, but I can think of two other reasons. Tax cutting is a matter of Republican theology; it is as close to the heart of the G.O.P.'s Sun Belt base as abortion is to the Democrats' legions of secular feminists. There is also a bit of family history here. Another President Bush once, famously, promised no new taxes. George W. Bush has not only been assiduous about doing the opposite in office of what Bill Clinton did, but also the opposite of what George H.W. Bush did. On the tax issue, as on the Gulf War, Oedipus rules...
...show judges were thrown into 15 minutes of turmoil as Schrum identified the equation “y=4x+7” as a first order equation. The given answer was “linear,” and the show stopped for 15 minutes while the home base of Jeopardy in California was called to verify the answer. Judges ultimately concluded that a first order equation was indeed a linear...