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...Jimmy Stewart; he approved a small number of Democrat issue ads paid for by the party. But Feingold showed the Beltway it's possible to win poor, and his bill will no doubt resurface in the Senate next year, stronger perhaps for having shrugged off a Lott/McConnell thunderbolt. It's a start...
...hardly be accidental that this brilliantmusical thunderbolt occurs after the album hasofficially ended. Mutations, Beck implies,is no monumental sequel to Odelay; theseMutations are just enjoyable moments on theway to the Next Big Thing. The real second datewith Beck Hansen, so to speak, is still to come.If this album isn't Odelay: The Return,perhaps it shouldn't have to be. The loose soundof Mutations has its own ample pleasures:unpretentious, old-fashioned, out-of-tune, like anamusing detour off the highway across America. Thetumultuous vanguard Beck created on Odelaywill still be there, hopefully, when he goeshunting...
...economics of sports. Murdoch views sports not as mere programming but as the foundation for establishing entire television (Fox) and satellite (British Sky Broadcasting) networks. From this perspective, it makes sense to pay more for the NFL than you can get back in advertising revenues. Murdoch fired that thunderbolt in 1994, paying $1.58 billion for the NFC package, 49% more than CBS had been paying. News Corp. wrote off some $350 million after the swipe, but the strategy helped the Fox Network reach parity with the Big Three...
Hogue takes this passage as follows: "The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt, the evil deed predicted by the bearer of a petition: according to the prediction another falls at night time, conflict in Reims, London and pestilence in Tuscany...
EAGLE, Colorado: DNA tests have confirmed that Captain Craig Button was in his A-10 Thunderbolt when it crashed in the Colorado Rockies. Wreckage of the plane and fragments of body parts were found Friday in the rugged mountains south of I-70, ending a three-week search. National Guardsmen will continue looking for the four 500-pound bombs the plane was carrying. But officials say that deep snow may have erased so many clues that they may never know why Button's plane left formation to fly 800 miles off course before crashing...