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...have told a friend. And today, he or she can achieve instant recognition. Says University of New Hampshire Professor Stuart Palmer: "You can become a TV star or an assassin," adding that for some people, "becoming an assassin, known to everyone by the media, is certainly pretty good second-best...
...lines remind you a little of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" but it's sad to see Dylan reduced to saying "Life is sad" and affecting a Marlboro-country tough-guy stance about it, offering the comfort of superior sexual performance to his "honey baby." Even "Tangled Up In Blue," the second-best song on the album, can only offer something that sounds like it comes off a poster...
...halfway through the season, the Warriors have a commanding lead in their division and the second-best record in the league and are play-off-bound. The main reason is Barry, who at 30 has emerged as the best forward in the N.B.A. As of last week, Barry was the leading scorer in the league (33.9 points a game), the second-best free-throw shooter (a .920 percentage) and the No. 2 ball thief (2.65 steals average). Barry was also among the top five playmakers, the only forward in a select group dominated by guards...
...attacked by the newspaper to respond to those attacks. While it is not ideal--perpetuating to some extent A.J. Liebling's idea that "freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one" (or can afford to buy space in one) it seems to surpass whatever is second-best...
...their asses," he says, "they don't score goals." Since the opening face-off of the season, the Flyers have executed that rough-and-tumble philosophy with savage enthusiasm, sending opponents sprawling across the ice at every opportunity. The tactic has worked: the Flyers finished with the second-best record in the National Hockey League and last week became the first expansion team in the league to play as a serious contender in the Stanley Cup finals...