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...When we become passionate about international football, we have the luxury of choosing our allegiances, of falling in love with whichever club suits us best. This freedom means that you will never tether yourself to an eternally hopeless bottom-dwelling club - unless that's your masochistic bent. You can pick a club that squares with your identity - be it gritty and hardworking, or champagne flash. This was, indeed, a beautiful freedom ? until this month. I had adopted two European clubs as my own, watched their games every weekend, wasted work hours reading blogs about them, emotionally invested myself in their...
Monopoly players have cruised the streets of Atlantic City, N.J.--Baltic Avenue? I'll buy it!--since Charles Darrow created the board in 1935. But a new version out this summer has the casino town fuming. Gamemaker Hasbro held an online vote to pick landmarks from 22 U.S. cities for the Here & Now edition--and left Atlantic City out. "We don't have a monopoly on Monopoly," says Jeff Vasser, who heads the city tourist authority. "But we were a little put off." He's sending Hasbro a petition with 5,000 signatures calling for a Here & Now square...
...soon as prices drop again, of course, I know that I'll stop playing my futile games and do as alcoholics do when they pick up the vodka bottle after an interval of sobriety: guzzle all the unleaded I can pump. It might be my final opportunity before the Saudi royal family announces that it's relocating to Malibu because its nation's wells are all tapped out. Drive 55 m.p.h. again? That's fine for optimists, but pessimists zoom full throttle toward the catastrophe that they have given up trying to forestall. It's a dangerous attitude...
...people will watch a dozen shows about cops, they'll watch two about TV writers, right? NBC has picked up Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a drama by AARON SORKIN (of West Wing fame) about backstage goings-on at a late-night sketch-comedy show, and looks likely to pick up Saturday Night Live star TINA FEY'S as-yet-unnamed sitcom about backstage goings-on at a late-night sketch-comedy show. Now all we need is a show about backstage goings-on when two shows about late-night sketch-comedy shows make...
...recognize that there will always be a war over who is the better mother. I've read enough war coverage to know this has no ending. But I think a kid is lucky to have either type of mom, and so I'm not going to pick sides. I'm with the grandparents. Neutral as the Red Cross...