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Though the fate of the game was never in doubt, the spiritedness of Harvard's play, even in the waning stages of the match, ensured a healthy margin of victory...
...participate in 300 events, which will be covered by an astounding 21,000 journalists. You can tell yourself you won't watch, but you will. Call it the Olympic spirit, call it the love of good television, call it being a sucker for a good race, game, match or fight. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls--and the children we all become as we get lost in the spectacle--turn your attention to Sydney, where for 17 days this fall we will see one hell of a race. The human race...
...longer history of the grudge match: The ancient Greeks invented games as a way of allowing men to fight one another without all that messy killing. Sport was literally a lifesaving idea: I hit you, you hit me, and an impartial observer determines who wins. (This became known as boxing.) I insult you, you trip me and the rest of the clan decides who played dirty better. (This became known as politics...
...short history of the grudge match: The Hebrews invented it. Cain was the first winner, but God disqualified him on the grounds of poor sportsmanship. Abel was awarded the gold posthumously...
...making, say, $35,000 a year that has a child in day care (a tax credit of up to $2,160), another in college (a credit of up to $2,800), a sick mother in a nursing home (a $3,000 credit) and a retirement-savings plan (a federal match of up to $2,000). Gore would also expand the earned-income tax credit, a subsidy for people earning too little to be taxed, and eliminate the marriage-tax penalty for some couples. For the most part, nobody earning more than $100,000 a year would see relief from...