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...just one more assistant referee with a TV set would be enough. Referee errors get more annoying as TV coverage matures to perfection: instant slow-motion replays from different angles show exactly whether a foul was real or faked, a hand blocked a shot from scoring, or a player stood offside. Everyone can see what really happened, except the referee who has to make the call. The referee reviewing the video replay could communicate with his colleague on the field over his earphones in a matter of seconds - a short time lag to forestall crucial injustice and worldwide frustration. Nicolas...
...there were a fashion equivalent to the handsome player, it would be Cristobal Balenciaga, above, the great Spanish couturier who shaped fashion from 1937, when he opened his Paris atelier, until 1968, when he abruptly closed it. The designer's rigorous spirit has always hovered over runways, but thanks to "Balenciaga Paris," a sweeping retrospective of his work that just opened at Paris' Musée de la Mode et du Textile, his influence is once again in midfield...
Even before he wrote The Language of God, Collins was a player in this potentially consequential debate. He has an ongoing dialogue with Chuck Colson, the former Nixon aide who heads the successful Prison Fellowship and influences a significant conservative Christian audience through a daily radio show and a magazine column. Thus far Collins has failed to convince Colson, who says, "I think he's giving away more than he needs to, and he thinks I'm denying science." But Colson adds, "He's a guy I like, admire and appreciate. We're going to have dinner together...
...Volume of the loudest shriek emitted by tennis player Maria Sharapova during a Wimbledon quarterfinal against fellow Russian Elena Dementieva. Sharapova won the match...
...stage deep in the fifth set where I was about to ask the umpire, 'Can we just arm-wrestle for it?'" MARK KNOWLES, Bahamian tennis player who, together with doubles partner Daniel Nestor, defeated Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry after 6 hr. 9 min. of play in Wimbledon's longest-ever match...