Word: sectionalism
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...gave it up. Not baseball. Fandom. I watched Baseball Tonight, read the sports section, of course. But no rooting. Didn't care about anybody. Fandom never made sense to me in the first place. The whole idea is absurd. It's one thing to admire sport and watch it for its beauty and elegance. That makes sense. But to care and cheer and stomp for other grown men to win? That's bizarre. These brutes throw chairs at fans. They take steroids and pretend it mysteriously got into their cereal. They curse and spit and scratch their groins and then...
...explicitly protected doesn't mean others don't exist; the 14th says people cannot be denied life, liberty or property without due process.) At one time Roberts appeared to agree. As a young Justice Department lawyer in 1981, he summarized a lecture in which the speaker "devotes a section to the so-called 'right to privacy,' arguing as we have that such an amorphous right is not to be found in the Constitution." But this summer he told a Democratic Senator that it was hard to read the Constitution without getting some impression that the Founders were talking about privacy...
...music. West is a master of samples and drum loops, and co-producer Brion can play anything with strings. Together they make one of the better-sounding rap records in history. Diamonds from Sierra Leone features the Bassey sample, keyboards stolen from a Vegas lounge act and a horn section fit for a coronation. Gone opens with an Otis Redding sample (from It's Too Late) and a two-note piano melody. Then there's a thwack of percussion and what seems like eight different string sections playing disciplined countermelodies that change with each verse to modify the vocals...
...torpid summer night in Florida, the kind made for watching DVD movies, lying motionless in refrigerated living rooms. Yet here is Eddie Ventrice, 43, tie off, shirt untucked, sprawled in the VIP section of the Muvico Palace theater for a 7:05 showing of War of the Worlds. Sure, he's got a 60-in. set at home as well as a 40-in. flat screen, not to mention a wife and kids. Sure, his ticket cost $18. But here he gets to hang with two buddies and watch killer aliens on the big screen. There's a lobby...
More sinister are signs of death squads charged with eliminating potential opponents and former Baathists. U.S. intelligence sources confirm that early targets included former members of the Iran section of Saddam's intelligence services. In southern cities, Thar-Allah (Vengeance of God) is one of a number of militant groups suspected of assassinations. U.S. commanders in Baghdad and in eastern provinces say similar cells operate in their sectors. The chief of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, General Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, has publicly accused Iranian-backed cells of hunting down and killing his officers. In October he blamed agents...